On 05/17/2010 12:02 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Eric, > > * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:41:08AM CEST: >> Right now, either you use foo_DEPENDENCIES and have to list everything >> yourself, or you omit it, and automake does a good job. But what about >> the case where you want automake to do its automatic dependencies, and >> then you add one more file? It seems like it would be nice to support >> foo_DEPENDENCIES += other_file, without requiring that foo_DEPENDENCIES= >> previously occur in the file. > > Yes, such a mechanism would be nice. The Automake way wouldn't be to > allow 'foo_DEPENDENCIES +=' without prior initialization though (that > would defeat typo detection, and probably complicate the internal logic > wrt. conditionals), but adding of another variable to the default list > of foo_DEPENDENCIES. I guess. Suggestions for naming such a variable?
How about 'foo_EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES'? -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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