Re: [PATCH] make-dist fixes and clean-ups

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Jérôme Marant <address@hidden> writes:

> The only information you should know about with makefiles are
> targets and variables.

that's one way to look at it.  sometimes a project's methodology
cannot be described by only these things.  emacs is particularly
hairy when it comes to makefile construction, use and maintenance.

a very important part is the documentation (comments in the file
itself, separate notes in INSTALL.CVS, comments and code for
makefile-specific munging in the configure script, etc).  it's
a good idea to look at all these things, not only the targets
and variables.  if you restrict yourself thusly you miss a lot
of interesting information.

thi