[sclug] Building very large packages?

[Matt]

* David Given <dg at cowlark.com> [2005-06-24 20:32:47]:
> I've found myself maintaining a large compiler toolchain; the ACK 
> (http://tack.sf.net). There are about 10'000 files in its source repository, 
> some of which have timestamps over twenty years old, all bound together by an 
> undocumented mass of twisty, turny little shell scripts and recursive 
> makefiles. I'm having a lot of trouble making it do *anything* much.
> 
> So, I'd rather like to replace the whole build system with something more 
> modern. Any suggestions?

autoconf/automake?

Matt
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