Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

[Paul T. B. <ptb...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:32 PM Derek Gaston <fri...@gm...> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:54 AM Roy Stogner <roy...@ic...>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Derek Gaston wrote:
>>
>> Should we put one magic add_files.sh at the top level?
>>
>
> I guess?  I still don't understand why these are even necessary - there
> should just be a build rule for the symlinks!
>

It just occurred to me that in fact there are autoconf macros that should
do exactly this so configure should be able to generate the symlinks at
configure time and remove the need to manually run a shell script for
symlinking. I will look into this because this is super annoying. It will
not remove the need to run the script to add the file names to the build
system though.