Re: [boost] Re: Why Jam?

From: Karl Nelson (kenelson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-26 13:22:48

> 
> ----- 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.

Which files?

I just wrote the Makefile.am, autogen.sh, and configure.in.
About 150 lines.  

All the rest was generated by the tool.  I documented those three
to the level where you should be able to use them as reference
for the autobook and automake reference guide.  But if you have 
more specific questions I would be happy to help.

--Karl