[geeks] Makefile question

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> So, there isn't some way to get around adding all those extra lines
> other than writing a script that builds the makefile?

GNU Automake was written to take care of things like this.

> See, new .cpp files are continually being added, both by me and
> another guy, and the other guy doesn't care (grr) to know anything

Willful ignorance is a shooting offense in my book.

> Well I've converted it to your way for now.  In a day or two, if nothing
> else is suggested, I'll just break down and make a shell script to
> create the Makefile, either that or learn autoconf, etc.

The "autobook" at Red Hat's site is a good tutorial on getting started
with autoconf and automake.

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