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DATE | 2021-01-26 |
FROM | Paul Smith
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SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Future plans for Autotools
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From hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Tue Jan 26 15:06:49 2021 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (www2.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09926163FD7; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:06:49 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 754A5163FD0; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:06:38 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: Ruben Safir Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:06:38 -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <20210126200638.GB5060-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com> Resent-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com X-Original-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DF6163FD0 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([::1]:42426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4UTy-0002r5-6R for ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:34 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4UTh-0002pn-Ju; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:17 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4UTh-0004BR-Dq; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:17 -0500 Received: from pool-96-233-64-159.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([96.233.64.159]:57434 helo=pdslaptop.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l4UTg-0002Up-Hv; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:17 -0500 Message-ID: <92ee68206621216e2ea2e48e29e4c845034ff285.camel-at-gnu.org> From: Paul Smith To: Autoconf , automake Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <0f6c851b-a389-effc-bedd-5491ae83c7ba-at-cs.ucla.edu> Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: autoconf-at-gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list Subject: Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Future plans for Autotools X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com List-Id: NYLXS Tech Talk and Politics List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: psmith-at-gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Sender: "Hangout"
On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 11:01 -0800, Andy Tai wrote: > GNU Make integrates with guile. Maybe such extension can be > done using guile for flexibility?
The problem is that hardly any standard distributions build GNU make with Guile support enabled. If this was used basically it would end up requiring anyone who wanted to use automake to build their own version of GNU make first.
And, we'd have a catch-22 where Guile (if it used automake) would need a GNU make built with Guile before it could be built...
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