So the .am file is like this: .POSIX:
SUFFIXES = .pc .pc.lo: cp $*.pc $*.c $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) --mode=compile $(CC) $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $*.c rm -f $*.c CCLD = $(CC) LINK = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) \ --mode=link $(CCLD) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) \ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ noinst_LTLIBRARIES=libfoo.la libfoo_la_SOURCES=foo.pc bar.c The libfoo_la_SOURCES are not added to the tags list and the tags goals are not generated: excerpt from the Makefile.in --------- tags: TAGS TAGS: ctags: CTAGS CTAGS: --------- Adding them to the TAGS_FILES explicitly (as Stefano had advised) doesn't help. It seems that it's being overridden. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Юрий Пухальский <aikip...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:49 PM Subject: bug#7824: Automatic chaining of make suffix rules (was: Re: bug#7824: won't fix) To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Cc: 7...@debbugs.gnu.org, Automake List <autom...@gnu.org> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Re-adding the list, as this discussion is worth being registered in > the archives IMHO] > Ok. >>>> The situation is that both of the approaches (.pc.c rule and .pc.lo >>>> rule) have problems entailed. >>> >>>> * .pc.lo rule doesn't create tags for *.pc sources. >>>> >>> Try to add the relevant '.pc' files to $(TAGS_FILES) explicitly. It should >>> solve your issue. If it doesn't, you've found a new Automake bug, which I >>> will gladly fix :-) >> >> Ah, ok! I knew there must be something like that. >> But why in the first place it doesn't do it automatically? I have it >> in the _SOURCES… Is it afraid of the .pc extension? >> > I'm not sure actually. Might be a tiny bug in automake. Care to open a > new report about the issue, so I won't forget? I'll get to it eventually, > but not right now. -- «Every person has a certain horizon. When it narrows and becomes infinitely small, it changes into a point and then the person says: “This is my point of view.”»