That's nothing new, it's been like that a long time. I don't think
anyone thinks its a great solution, but it works. It was more born
out of politics than any technical concern, but I think those
politics have mostly subsided.

If you can do it better, I invite you to make a better system. Some
of us here have outlined an autoconf-based system, but that's not
essential. I could see a pkgconfig/makefile system perhaps.

.hc

On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:22 PM, carmen r wrote:

someone f'd up the externals/ dir on SVN big time

theres 118K (!!!) makefile at toplevel,

with instructions for (all? most?) subdirectories

subdirectory makefiles do weird sed/regex hell just to essentialyl
cd .. and send their directory name to the megascript

WTF???

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