converting an autotools build recipe
Oh yes!
to a bare makefile
Oh no!
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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Honestly, if the makefile is well written, I will take that any day. Good makefiles are 😙👌.
They are extremely rare, tho...
I guess the solution would be a declarative language that compiles to makefiles. So that people don't have to know the nitty gritty of writing good makefiles, and can just maintain a file of their dependencies and settings...
Why compile to a Makefile? You'd end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely