Hi,
Following discussions about having a better build system I've pushed to the most recent SVN a configure/make system.
It uses autoconf, but not automake, since automake:
- a) is very tied to recursive makefiles, see Recursive Make Considered Harmful for a very enlightening discussion of the subject.
- b) has a very fixed idea about how your project is laid out, and since ufo:ai isn't laid out that way it would be a real pain to make it fit.
So instead I've included a new set of makefiles, with the sub-makefiles appearing in the 'build' directory.
As an added bonus the new system also does a proper dependency analysis. So no more having to 'make clean' because you changed a header file.
To compile with it you need to do
./configure
make -f Makefile
the -f is necessary because the old system is still in place since this one is experimental. Also a dependency has been added on libtool, since there's not really a different nice way to do shared objects cross platform (well libtool isn't exactly 'nice' but you know what I mean) :-)
Caveats: it is almost certainly broken on anything other than linux, since that's all I am able to test it on at the moment. However hopefully if people try it on other systems they can let me know of any problems.
Thanks :-)
Tom
