* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:42:01PM CEST:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
On 08/18/10 13:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
At Wednesday 18 August 2010, Roberto Bagnara wrote:
>> #$(TESTS:address@hidden@): ../../bin/compiler
The above is rejected even with the dot.
This seems like an automake limitation... no big deal though, as there
is the simple workaround:
TESTS_OBJS = $(TESTS:address@hidden@)
$(TESTS_OBJS): ../../bin/compiler
which is also clearer to read IMO.
Yeah, that's just an automake parsing buglet.
it's better to do:
TESTS = t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6
TESTS_OBJS = $(t1_OBJECTS) $(t2_OBJECTS) $(t3_OBJECTS) \
$(t4_OBJECTS) $(t5_OBJECTS) $(t6_OBJECTS)
$(TESTS_OBJS): ../../bin/compiler
Unfortunately, this is more error-prone, since if you add, say,
`t7' to TESTS, but forget to add $(t7_OBJECTS) to TESTS_OBJS,
you'll have missing dependencies... Well, you'll decide what's
better for you.
Hmm, it is error-prone indeed. Moreover, we have more than one
thousands tests and we could soon have two thousands of them.
I suppose automake could be enhanced to also define $(OBJECTS) as the
set of all objects.
But there are other ways you could hack around this. Iff your compiler
is generated from a different Makefile.am (this is important!), then in
the tests/Makefile.am you could:
BUILT_SOURCES = stamp-objects
stamp-objects: ../../bin/compiler
-rm -f *.$(OBJEXT)
-rm -f sub/*.$(OBJEXT)
...
echo timestamp>$@
It is rather hacky, but it should work. Untested.