Questions regarding Autotools and MPLabX

[MrColin]

Hi guys. I'm hoping to use you as a sounding board if that's ok...

I've been working on a rather large code base which spans several products. All compiled with the CCS compiler.

I'm looking at giving myself less work to do in future and would like to combine all the shared source into a single API which I can call upon for each product.

Currently I'm using Hg, pulling in individual components as sub-repo's branching them for the specific product and pushing changes up and down stream depending on how well the code is performing across the range.

What I'd rather be doing is consolidating the code into a single library (which may itself be a collection of sub-repos) and to do all the customising through a single configure.ac file bundled with each product and Autotools to generate the necessary code.

Have you any input on working on such a fashion? I'm about to create more trouble for myself than it's worth? I'd really appreciate any input.

Many thanks for your time,
Colin