On Saturday 29 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 02:20:00PM CET: > > On Saturday 29 January 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > I agree with everything except ... > > > > > > > BUILT_SOURCES = parse1.h p2-parse2.h > > > > +main3.@OBJEXT@: parse3.h > > > > > > ... this line shouldn't be there, other than to workaround > > > a bug in automake; > > > > > Why not? IMO it increases coverage by showing that, when we know > > which files include a yacc-generated header, we can just declare > > dependencies directly instead of relying on the $(BUILT_SOURCES) > > hack, and still have things work correctly. > > Ah, so it was done on purpose. Well, ok then, but it wouldn't be > good to document this in the manual, because this line relies on > either of the two facts that @OBJEXT@ hides the actual name from > automake, and there is a matching inference rule for the object > (automake will not produce a rule for some target if you put a > rule for that target in the Makefile.am, even if your rule does > not contain commands; > JFTR: I never liked this behaviour, which IMHO greatly reduce the transparency of automake. But that's for another thread anyway (and another day, probably).
> cf. the comment about this in Rule.pm). > I will push this patch (and other approved ones which are still pending) shortly. Thanks, Stefano
