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From: | Miguel Guedes |
Subject: | Re: Extending automake rules |
Date: | Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:44:25 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 |
Hi Stefano. On 11/11/12 09:19, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
Unfortunately, it is basically impossible to accomplish what you want with the current Automake. That is, most rules can only be overridden, not extended (and those which can, can be only in a limited, unflexible way). You might manage to hack something together by (ab)using Automake internals, but then of course you'll have no guarantee such an hack will continue to work with future Automake release. Lack of extensibility is one of the main drawbacks of Automake, and improving the situation consistently would require a lot of work I fear, so I don't see anything happening in that area anytime soon.
Thank you for your reply!It's not a problem that Automake lacks the extensibility I was after. After some reading and thinking about it I've decided to use a combination of Autoconf, Autoheader and handcrafted Makefile.in files. It works beautifully and allows for effortless creation/updating of project builds.
The wonderful flexibility of Autotools saved the day! :) Thanks again, Miguel
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