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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:54:17 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1
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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
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