From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 11:06:31 EST
On Jan 27, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I just tried to download japhar's prerelease. They use automake/libtool
> as well. So I tried to configure and and build it, and it fails like so:
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../arch/libarch.la', needed by `opstack_test'. Stop.
> Why does this not surprise me?
This is no different from a rule such as
foo: bar
without a rule defining how to build bar. People can (and usually
will) make mistakes even if you don't give them powerful tools. In
fact, without meta-tools, they're much more likely to make mistakes
that go undetected.
I don't understand why you're so defensive about automake and libtool.
I managed to completely re-create all the Makefile and shared library
inteligence that had evolved in Kaffe along a few years in about two
weeks. Can't you see any value in this?
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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