Re: [boost] Re: Why Jam?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-26 13:11:28

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Nelson" <kenelson_at_[hidden]>

> Daunting is barely the word to describe it.  The best way to
> learn the thing is to take a really simple project which is already
> using automake and expand it to fit yours.  The documentation is
> more of a reference guide for you to look up macros.  It does
> nothing to help the staring user.  (Unless confusing is helping.)
>
> Just to demonstrate (since I have done 3 of these in the last month)
> here is a sample of an automake project done of my boost submission.
>
>    http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/format_package-0.0.1.tar.gz
>
> It took all of 20 minutes to get working.  It works on cygwin and
> unix derivatives.
>
> Hope it helps.

There seems to be an enormous amount of (dense) code there written in
languages I don't speak. I'm glad it was easy for you, but it doesn't help
me much. Maybe a whole lot of comments would help.

Thanks,
Dave