Re: [gentoo-soc] Ebuild Generator week 7

Donnie Berkholz writes:

> I wouldn't do it that way; I would complete ignore the Makefiles on an
> autotools project, since as you've said they are fraught with
> complexity. Generated Makefiles are far more complex than handwritten
> ones, although the nice thing is that if one works, they all do.
>
My bad, I meant the Makefile.am files ofcourse.

> I would check AC_ARG_WITH and AC_ARG_ENABLE, which tells you what
> features are truly optional and also give a good idea of what the USE
> flags should be. I'd use those to determine what variables and defines
> get set in an optional way, and then track them through (1) Makefile.am
> files to see how it changes what's built and how and (2) the source
> files themselves to see how it changes #ifdefs and thus what's included.
>
Sounds good, I'll do it that way then! :)