Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?
Hello list, I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this: 8--- doc/fake437-primitive.texi: doc/$(am__dirstamp) include/fake437/primitive.h; $(EXTRACT_TEXI) ---8 but I feel that using anything starting with $(am__) is asking for trouble by relying on internal details. There's no mention of dirstamp in the info file and Googling didn't yield anything useful either. Does anyone have suggestions of where to look or better approaches? -- Jack
Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?
Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:37:22PM CEST: I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this: 8--- doc/fake437-primitive.texi: doc/$(am__dirstamp) include/fake437/primitive.h; $(EXTRACT_TEXI) ---8 but I feel that using anything starting with $(am__) is asking for trouble by relying on internal details. Right you are in assuming that. Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere with automake's stamps and rules: subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp commands ... subdir/my-dirstamp: @$(MKDIR_P) subdir @: $@ DISTCLEANFILES += subdir/my-dirstamp Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere with automake's stamps and rules: subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp commands ... subdir/my-dirstamp: @$(MKDIR_P) subdir @: $@ DISTCLEANFILES += subdir/my-dirstamp A possibly simpler way, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, is to do this at configure time: AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([tests/data/.placeholder], [touch tests/data/.placeholder]) -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/
