Re: ideas for speeding up compile mode

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> [ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ]

> 3) Fold compile mode completely into Automake snippets/the resulting
> Makefile.  I wonder why this has not been done before, at least for the
> default rules (per-target rules could lead to a large blowup of the
> resulting Makefile.in).
Such kind of proposal had popped up several before.

IIRC, the argument had been that the libtool folks had wanted to "keep
libtool outside of automake" because libtool is/had been supposed to be
a tool independent of the make infrastructure being used (automake is
just one of them).

Ralf