Tom Tromey wrote: > > >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> I suppose automake could be enhanced so that it automatically > Alex> knew which files are BUILT_SOURCES by looking back through the > Alex> suffix rules. Then the small overhead of listing them twice > Alex> would be removed. > > BUILT_SOURCES are built early, before anything else happens. It isn't > clear you always want this for sources that are built during the build > process. (I don't have an example though.) > > I know I've thought of it before, though, since this is in TODO: > > * notice when a .c file is a target somewhere, and auto-add it to > BUILT_SOURCES
If you do such a thing, please remember that there is at least one person out there with a project that builds its own .c source, but only after it is first built. Consequently, it ships with derived files and rules for re-deriving them. Such an automated "feature" would increase my automake difficulties from "a big pain" to "utterly impossible to use". Please don't do it. Thanks.
