Re: Getting long SOURCES lines with subdirs shorter

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Given
>
>         a_SOURCES = aprog/main.c aprog/foo.c aprog/bar.c aprog/baz.c ...
>
> The more source files there are to be listed, the longer that line gets, 
> the bigger the Makefile.am fragment becomes, etc. I am thinking about 
> how to cut that repetition down. Current automake likely won't have 
> anything in store already, so I'm thinking of editing automake and 
> targeting a future automake release.
>   

While this does not reduce the repetition, Automake allows 
backslash-continuation on these lines.  DejaGnu uses it to list files 
one per line in some places; see 
<URL:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dejagnu.git/tree/Makefile.am>.

-- Jacob