[Chicken-hackers] Re: separate build directory support for Chicken

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Alex Queiroz <address@hidden> writes:

 >> The following patch implements the support for building in a
 >> separate directory, like:

 > Just a thought but, won't adding lots of features to the plain
 > makefiles build system make it so complex as to become unmanageable?

        Actually, I'm planning a build system rewrite which, by
        utilising some of the GNU Make features, will make the build
        system /much more/ manageable.  I've already reduced rules.make
        down to 38 KiB (i. e., by 40%) and it doesn't look that I'm
        going to stop just yet.

        The primary cause for delaying the rewrite is that I'm trying to
        prepare a script, so that the validness of the changes could be
        more easily checked.  (Though it obviously isn't strictly
        necessary.)

PS.  Would there be a plenty of Make and Autotools experts among the
        Chicken developers, I'd be happy to suggest a transition to
        Autotools.  Apparently, it's not the case, so I'm trying to do
        my best with the plain GNU Make-based build system.