Re: using a shell script to compile your C programs

pereges wrote:
> On May 9, 3:52 pm, "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> More than a decade ago we had to the same thing (defelop a makefile
>> generator)  as there were enough members in the team who coudn't be
>> bothered to learn how to write makefiles. Not to speak of
>> configuring the much more complex automake...
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> Anyway, why is it such a big issue for most people to write a simple
> makefile ? I have been reading a tutorial for the last hour and it
> does not seem that hard to write simple makefiles.
It isn't too difficult, indeed.

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> Howver, the problem that I see with this approach that one has to keep
> track of all the dependencies. It will get ***bersome with huge
> projects but I believe there is a way out.
It is indeed not so easy to implement makefiles for a large existing code 
base.

gcc -M (or -MM) would generate the list of dependencies for you. Actually
in 
our program we used that for the makefile generation.

Bye, Jojo