Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <43060EB9.5030303@familiehaase.de> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:54:17 +0200 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1 References: <430607EA.4FACEE83@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <430607EA.4FACEE83@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Dessent wrote: >>Full original make file (it you care to see it, it's here): >> >># Makefile for CRM114 > > > Wow. Just. Wow. That makefile is just unbelievable. (Unbelievably > bad that is.) I wonder if the author was molested by automake as a kid > and was scarred for life. Nothing else explains the reasoning for doing > things like copying the same rule over and over for every .o file. Bill Y. is a genius! However he knows nothin about automake or autoconf. Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/