* Peter Johansson wrote on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:31:56PM CET: > Joseph Garvin wrote: > >I have a number of autotooled libraries. Currently their Makefile.am's > >are largely redundant, so I thought I would use the 'include' keyword > >and have them pull their common parts from some file. But as far as I > >can tell, the include isn't being observed by automake -- instead it's > >ignored and passed on to make, where it defines targets that make > >doesn't care about (install-exec-hook, etc.).
Can you show a small example that doesn't work? Thanks. > > The documentation says > >automake only pays attention to includes that start with $(srcdir) or > >$(top_srcdir), but that's not possible in this instance, because each > >library is its own project (recursive make isn't being used). But these two features don't exclude each other. You can use $(top_srcdir)/../foo/fragment.am > I'm not sure exactly what you wanna achieve here. But there is an > autoconf macro > http://www.nongnu.org/autoconf-archive/ax_add_am_macro_static.html > which allows you to have autoconf to generate automake input. Hmm, the idea of having such a is not bad, but I don't think it should need to go via esyscmd. Maybe Automake should provide something similar. Cheers, Ralf
