Source subdirectories dependency problem at link stage

[Mathias Puetz]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>Mathias Puetz wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >I agree that the project structure should be more flexible.  Also there
>> >should be a way to specify the
>> >linker flags for each individual subdir and not only for the whole project.
>> 
>> Good point. I think a more general solution would be
>> to allow a project to consist of several sub-projects.
>I would recommend to let the new project management base on tmake's
>*.pro files wrapped with an additional kdevelop *.kdevprj for the
>KDevelop IDE stuff.
>Have a look at the qt directory!
>Tmake provides an extremly easy but powerful project management. It can
>generate Makefiles for many platforms, you can specify any own project
>structure (e.g. with subdirectories bin, lib, res, src and include), and
>tmake can handle sub-projects in any depth (by using several .pro
>files).
>At the time we have projects with many sub-projects (shared libraries as
>well), all well managed with tmake. Unfortunatelly, KDevelop supports
>this weakly, just by customer projects.
>
>Setting specific compiler/linker flags would be possible by controlling
>the tmake template files...
>-- 
Do you need a tmake executable for compiling a tgz release
of your projects or will the final release work with ordinary
make (gmake) ? This is important since gmake is ported to 
almost every platform I know, but I don't know about tmake.

Mathias

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