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Re: TODO clean up


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: TODO clean up
Date: 06 May 2002 22:32:05 -0600

adl> Could you skim this and make sure I'm not removing something
adl> "yet-to-do"?

Thanks for doing this.

-Per> 2) Being intelligent about new kinds of suffixes.
-Per> If it sees:
-Per> SUFFIXES = .class .java
-Per> and a suffix rule of the form:
-Per> .java.class:
-Per> then it should be able to realize it can build .class files from
-Per> .java files, and thus be able to generate a list of
-Per> .class files from a list of .java source files.

What Per wanted here was a way to have automate automatically follow
suffix rules.  So for instance if you had a `.x.y:' rule, and automake
saw a `.x' file, it would automatically build and install the
corresponding `.y' file.  We still don't have a facility like this.

Tom



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