On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 at 00:03, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> The manual currently says: "You should never explicitly mention the
> intermediate (C or C++) file in any `SOURCES' variable; only list
> the source file."
>
> I don't know the code here, and this probably wasn't the question, but I
> think the manual's statement about "any `SOURCES' variables" was simply
> not meant to apply to BUILT_SOURCES (probably didn't think about it),
>
I did wonder that myself.
but rather to the "normal" something_SOURCES variables. So my gut
> reaction is to add "(except @code{BUILT_SOURCES}, see below)".
>
> Later, it talks about adding the header file to
> "BUIILT_SOURCES". This seems at odds with what Mike said and I found
> empirically.
>
> I suggest that we could just say to add both files, although if you want
> to try to understand what's actually going on, more power to you :).
>
In terms of solving the problem, that would seem the safer option.
If you're happy with that, I'll write a patch.
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