Using perl for autogenerating Makefile

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:

> Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi tridge,
> >>
> >>would it be ok if I use perl to autogenerate our Makefile
> >>in samba4 it's much easier to build a dependence tree of the subsystems
> >>and read in the config.mk files.
> >>
> >>I think this should be no problem, because we already depend on perl for
> >>make proto...
> > 
> > 
> > Why don't you go all the way and move to scons?
> 
> hmm, I don't sure about this...

scons is a build system that is more capable than make.

Regards
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