On 11/19/2010 10:30 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:01:38 +0100, David Haller wrote:

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imake is similar, IIRC (but a bit more restricted).

No, Imake is horrible :) It misues the C preprocessor as its macro processor so you have to write your Imakefiles like a C file. The autotools are more honest and use m4 and in the case of automake lots of Perl.

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scons and bjam seem just as inflexible as cmake, and difficult to "massage" / adapt.

They aren't inflexible, but you have to learn completely different configuration languages for each of them.

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And, as Philipp can testify, I'm not one to give up easy.

Definitely. Things really have to be horrible for you to give up.

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Gah! Documentation? Missing, lacking, misleading, plain wrong. Pick four.

That goes directly to my my sig collection!

Philipp

David, Philipp, Thanks for the follow-up and I'll definitely include you on any other issues I plow through here. I've ended up just sticking with hand-written makefiles for now. I worked through Philipp's autoscan/configure.ac approach, but ran into a few issues due to still being on an 11.0 box. I haven't had time to further chase those issues on 11.3 yet. With your makefile suggestions, I ended up with the following that works great. It's hard to justify a lot more time exploring/troubleshooting automagic tools until the project grows a bit. With things this simple, the simple hand-rolled makefiles work fine. (and make recompiles a breeze -- you just have to remember the name of the makefile that's current :-) 13:41 alchemy:~/dev/test> cat Makefile.sim CC := gcc CFLAGS := -O2 CFLAGS += -Wall -W -Wno-unused OBJECTS := sim_orbm.o fn_const.o fn_state.o isolv_state.o # linking CCLD := $(CC) LDFLAGS := -Wl LIBS := -lgslcblas -lgsl -lm orbs : $(OBJECTS) $(CCLD) -o orbs $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) sim_orbm.o : fn_const.h fn_state.h isolv_state.h fn_const.o : fn_const.h fn_state.o : fn_state.h isolv_state.o : isolv_state.h clean: rm -f orbs $(OBJECTS) I haven't further shortened the makefile because I have a number of sources and headers in the directory (which is just a test bed). Once I move specific files into an actual project dir, I'll make the makefile more generic... (that's once the project actually has a form more than a dozen or so programs used to confirm and troubleshoot the math in the code being used ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org