On 01 Dec 2023 21:37, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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.
i thought your concern was about Makefile.in noise. Makefile.am is somewhat mitigated via modules & %D%/ prefixes already. not that i'm anti expanding things statically when feasible. -mike
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