On Monday 06 April 2009 16:32:35 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:15:43PM CEST: > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> what would be cool is if automake processed some GNU makeisms in the .am > >> -> .in step. personally, i use some things like $(wildcard) and > >> $(patsubst) because i hate having to hand maintain a huge list of files > >> -- i inevitably add more and forget to update the Makefile.am list. > > There is a FAQ entry about wildcards in the Automake manual.
indeed, and i know ive read that before ;). i understand the philosophical arguments and basic pros/cons, but in my case, i dont really worry about any of the cons in the stated arguments. > >> for projects that need to > >> be portable, i put a hack into autogen.sh which builds the list with a > >> shell script and then sed's it into Makefile.am while for projects that > >> do not need to be portable, i change the automake warning level. > > Sounds ok to me. it's a pita, but it works -mike
