Re: inquiry make documentation on native windows

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Am 02.01.2022 um 08:56 schrieb Ethan A Merritt:

> Is it this file?
>     .../config/mingw/Makefile >
> How is that file generated?

It's not. All the actual makefiles in the "config" sub tree are 
hand-written, except for the source file lists they import from the 
generated src/makefile.all and src/makefile.awc.  The Makefile.am in 
there is just for organizing the tarball.

There's a case to be made that a CMake setup could replace a large part 
of those, particularly mingw, cygwin, msvc.  Among other things, that 
could reduce the extra work of maintaining them all.

I have a CMake script here that does most of what config/cygwin and 
config/msvc achieve.  I haven't yet tried to add the extra work as done 
by config/mingw: no TeX, no Japanese docs, etc.