ExactBuild
A sane GNU Auto* replacement
For portable build systems normally GNU autoconf and the associated companiens such as automake and libtool are used these days. However, albeit portable they are rather crufty to use. The various macro expansion and generation steps extremely blow up the initial definitions and make execution slow and debugging a nightmare.
Even with the enourmous code bloat, it does not have a wide feature set and neither allows to maximize the gain of parallel builds nor other state-of-the-art compiler features. Manual tinkering is needed in such cases.
Mostly due the code bloat but also to obtain features such as mximal parallel build and object output seperated cleanly from the source, we create our own set of Makefiles for the non-recursive build system and shell scripts for configuration, if required by the software module (some straight forware code does come without a configure script at all).
Releases
There are not yet releae tarballs, grab the current code from: the exact-build SVN repository
Feedback
To improve the software please send feature ideas, report compile problems, bugs via email to rene@exactcode.de.