try out redo as alternative build system.

_conf.sh.do

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+echo "CXX=c++"
+echo "CXXFLAGS=\"-Wall -Wextra -ggdb -DLOCALEDIR=\\\"$localedir\\\"\""
+echo "LDFLAGS=-L."
+
+FAILSTATUS=""
+CXXFLAGS=""
+LDFLAGS=""
+
+check_pkg() {
+	pkgname=$1
+	pkgconfig_args=$2
+	echo -n "Checking for package ${pkgname}... " >&2
+	if pkg-config --silence-errors "${pkgname}" ; then
+		echo "found" >&2
+		CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS `pkg-config --cflags $pkgconfig_args ${pkgname}`"
+		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS `pkg-config --libs $pkgconfig_args ${pkgname}`"
+	else
+		echo "not found" >&2
+		return 1
+	fi
+	return 0
+}
+
+check_custom() {
+	pkgname=$1
+	customconfig=$2
+	echo -n "Checking for package ${pkgname} using ${customconfig}... " >&2
+	if ${customconfig} --cflags > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
+		echo "found" >&2
+		CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS `${customconfig} --cflags $pkgconfig_args ${pkgname}`"
+		LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS `${customconfig} --libs $pkgconfig_args ${pkgname}`"
+	else
+		echo "not found" >&2
+		return 1
+	fi
+	return 0
+}
+
+fail() {
+	pkgname=$1
+	rm -f config.mk
+	dlurl=`grep -i "$pkgname" README | awk '{ print $NF }'`
+	echo "" >&2
+	echo "You need package ${pkgname} in order to compile this program." >&2
+	echo "Please make sure it is installed." >&2
+	echo "" >&2
+	echo "You can download ${pkgname} from here: ${dlurl}" >&2
+	FAILSTATUS="1"
+}
+
+fail_custom() {
+	err=$1
+	echo "" >&2
+	echo "ERROR: ${err}" >&2
+	FAILSTATUS="1"
+}
+
+all_aboard_the_fail_boat() {
+	if [ "x$FAILSTATUS" != "x" ] ; then
+		rm -f config.mk
+		echo "" >&2
+		echo "One or more dependencies couldn\'t be found. Please install" >&2
+		echo "these packages and retry compilation." >&2
+		exit 1
+	fi
+}
+
+check_pkg "sqlite3" || fail "sqlite3"
+check_pkg "libcurl" || check_custom "libcurl" "curl-config" || fail "libcurl"
+check_pkg "libxml-2.0" || check_custom "libxml2" "xml2-config" || fail "libxml2"
+check_pkg "stfl" "--static" || fail "stfl"
+all_aboard_the_fail_boat
+
+echo "CXXFLAGS=\"\$CXXFLAGS $CXXFLAGS\""
+echo "LDFLAGS=\"\$LDFLAGS $LDFLAGS\""

all.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+redo-ifchange newsbeuter podbeuter

clean.do

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+rm -f *.o *.a xlicense.h newsbeuter podbeuter _conf.sh
+redo rss/clean filter/clean src/clean stfl/clean po/clean

default.o.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -Iinclude -Istfl -Ifilter -I. -Irss -o $3 -c $1.cpp

filter/clean.do

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+rm -f *.o

filter/default.o.do

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+redo-ifchange ../_conf.sh
+. ../_conf.sh
+
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -I../include -I../stfl -I../filter -I.. -I../rss -o $3 -c $1.cpp

libbeuter.a.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+OBJS=`cat libbeuter.deps | sed 's/.cpp/.o/g'`
+
+redo-ifchange $OBJS
+
+rm -f $1
+ar qc $3 $OBJS
+ranlib $3

libfilter.a.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+OBJS="filter/Scanner.o filter/Parser.o filter/FilterParser.o"
+
+redo-ifchange $OBJS
+
+rm -f $1
+ar qc $3 $OBJS
+ranlib $3

librsspp.a.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+RSSPPLIB_OBJS=`ls rss/*.cpp | sed 's/.cpp/.o/g'`
+
+redo-ifchange $RSSPPLIB_OBJS
+
+rm -f $1
+ar qc $3 $RSSPPLIB_OBJS
+ranlib $3

newsbeuter.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+NEWSBEUTER_LIBS="-lbeuter -lfilter -lpthread -lrsspp"
+MOFILES=`ls po/*.po | sed 's/.po/.mo/g'`
+NEWSBEUTER_OBJS=`cat newsbeuter.deps | sed 's/.cpp/.o/g'`
+LIBS="libbeuter.a librsspp.a libfilter.a"
+
+redo-ifchange $MOFILES $NEWSBEUTER_OBJS $LIBS
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -Iinclude -Istfl -Ifilter -I. -Irss -o $3 $NEWSBEUTER_OBJS $NEWSBEUTER_LIBS $LDFLAGS

po/clean.do

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+rm -f *.mo

po/default.mo.do

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+msgfmt --statistics -o $3 $1.po

podbeuter.do

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+redo-ifchange _conf.sh
+. ./_conf.sh
+
+PODBEUTER_LIBS="-lbeuter -lpthread"
+PODBEUTER_OBJS=`cat podbeuter.deps | sed 's/.cpp/.o/g'`
+LIBS="libbeuter.a"
+
+redo-ifchange $MODFILES $PODBEUTER_OBJS $LIBS
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -Iinclude -Istfl -Ifilter -I. -Irss -o $3 $PODBEUTER_OBJS $PODBEUTER_LIBS $LDFLAGS

rss/clean.do

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+rm -f *.o

rss/default.o.do

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+redo-ifchange ../_conf.sh
+. ../_conf.sh
+
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -I../include -I../stfl -I../filter -I.. -I../rss -o $3 -c $1.cpp

src/clean.do

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+rm -f *.o

src/default.o.do

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+redo-ifchange ../_conf.sh
+. ../_conf.sh
+
+# TODO: moves this to an own view.o.do file as soon as redo can handle this correctly.
+STFLHDRS=`ls ../stfl/*.stfl | sed 's/.stfl$/.h/g'`
+redo-ifchange $STFLHDRS ../xlicense.h
+
+$CXX $CXXFLAGS -I../include -I../stfl -I../filter -I.. -I../rss -o $3 -c $1.cpp

stfl/clean.do

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+rm -f *.h

stfl/default.h.do

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+../txt2h.pl $1.stfl .stfl > $3

xlicense.h.do

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+./txt2h.pl LICENSE > $3