Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

That's the vague idea of the current makefiles there. But since many people didn't want to change the existing makefiles within each library folder, almost everything is stuck into externals/Makefile.

I think if someone came up with a better system, then there wouldn't be objections to replacing the makefiles within each lib directory. Ideally, it should follow all of the GNU standards, like using 'prefix', DESTDIR, etc.

i started a Wiki to collect ideas (but don't let that keep you from emailing) http://puredata.info/dev/ModularBuildSystem

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