Re: performing pre-build shell commands with automake

[Peter Johansson]

On 6/20/10 2:56 PM, Wesley Smith wrote:
> I've been looking through the automake docs trying to figure out how
> to execute shell commands as part of the build process but before
> anything actually gets compiled.  Is this possible?  I need this for
> things like Qt's 'moc' and some other script-based code generation
> utilities.  thanks in advance!
>
>    
Wouldn;t it work if you list files that need to be generated in variable 
BUILT_SOURCES?

http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Sources

Peter