[geeks] Makefile question

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> So, there isn't some way to get around adding all those extra lines
> other than writing a script that builds the makefile?  See, new .cpp
> files are continually being added, both by me and another guy, and the
> other guy doesn't care (grr) to know anything about Makefiles or
> anything related, and so won't maintain it, since he only does Win32
> builds in VC++.
>
> Well I've converted it to your way for now.  In a day or two, if nothing
> else is suggested, I'll just break down and make a shell script to
> create the Makefile, either that or learn autoconf, etc.

Autoconf is probably the best thing for this kind of application.

Peace...  Sridhar