On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:52:37PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > It transforms macros and paths in an included file (called > Makefile.rules for now) , to make them suitable for a non-recursive > build. > > As show by the test cases, this allows a couple of neat things: > 1) A stub Makefile.am > === > include \$(srcdir)/Makefile.rules > === > is all that is needed in a given subdirectory to generate a full > makefile. (Useful if you want to be able to cd to a given dir and > perform builds just in that dir). > > 2) File paths, and canonical macro names are conveniently short - just > what Bob F has been (rightfully IMO) complaining about. > > 3) You don't end up with a huge Makefile.am to support, rather each part > of the project has a small rules file.
At the first sight this looks exactly the same scheme I was always longing for. Is there any reason why this code couldn't be included in the mainstream automake (in the 1.9 direction)? Jirka
