Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

[Kirk, B. (JSC-EG311) <ben...@na...>]

On Aug 31, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Paul T. Bauman <ptb...@gm...<mailto:ptb...@gm...>> wrote:

Why is everyone so afraid of actually writing Make?  I don't get it.

No one in this thread is afraid of writing make.

wildcards in GNU make as required by that blob are explicitly not allowed within automake because of the goal of supporting all makes.  So that is part of the issue, it is possible to write make but the targets must be specified.

A work around though could be a local hook, that rather than using wildcards within make instead calls a shell script that does effectively the same thing,