On Friday 2023-12-01 21:13, Mike Frysinger wrote: >On 17 Jul 2023 16:51, Karl Berry wrote: >> Hi Jan, >> >> Current automake likely won't have anything in store already, >> >> Not that I know of. >> >> a_SOURCES = $(addprefix aprog/,main.c foo.c bar.c baz.c) >> >> I've often wanted this myself. I'd certainly welcome a patch for it. >> >> Please work from automake trunk. None of the various branches are kept >> to date. (Sad but that's the reality.) > >prob stating the obvious, but $(addprefix) is a GNUism, so if we wanted to >use it, it'd required feature probing at configure time, and that always >complicates things :(
No-no, the idea was to make $(addprefix) an automakeism that is resolved before GNU make (or any other make) is ever invoked.
