On Thu, 2019-01-10 at 10:23 +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 07:35:54PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Vim won't recognize them, and thus not enable niceties > > such as syntax highlighting, otherwise. > > So, is there a strict reason for the *inc.am naming? Reading through [1]
Missing reference for [1] :) > gave me > the necessary background, but is there an inherent issue naming all of the > Makefiles in subdirectories to Makefile.am, I mean, we'd still end up > including > those, or does that go against some automake rules? I think the use of the .inc.am extension is intended to make it obvious that it's a snippet that will be included rather than a standalone file: as a test, I tried renaming one of the snippets from .inc.am to .am and I was still able to distcheck. CC'ing Dan for context, since he's the one who introduced snippets in the first place. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
