linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

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Message-Id: <200707051747.09611.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:47:08 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
Cc:	7eggert@....de, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	List util-linux-ng <util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

On Thursday 05 July 2007, Nix wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger outgrape:
> > On Thursday 05 July 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> >> The Makefiles generated by autotools is a huge mess, if autotools got it
> >> wrong (again!), fixing them requires editing a lot of files.
> >
> > this looks like a no brainer to me: dont edit generated files
>
> There is a worthwhile point here: if your input to the makefile
> generator is buggy and make errors out, you'll have to look at the
> generated code in order to relate the make error to the original.

granted, this can be a pain (ive spent an annoying amount of time tracking 
down unbalanced quotes/parens/etc... by trying to correlate configure.ac with 
configure), but i dont feel like this is a autotool-specific issue as it can 
come up with other auto-build-generators as well.  heck, a minor typo in a 
hand written makefile can sometimes be a time sink and hard to trace back 
(just look at linux kernel makefiles).
-mike

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