Re: Getting long SOURCES lines with subdirs shorter

[Mike Frysinger]

On 01 Dec 2023 21:37, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2023-12-01 21:13, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On 17 Jul 2023 16:51, Karl Berry wrote:
> >> Hi Jan,
> >> 
> >>     Current automake likely won't have anything in store already,
> >> 
> >> Not that I know of.
> >> 
> >>     a_SOURCES = $(addprefix aprog/,main.c foo.c bar.c baz.c)
> >> 
> >> I've often wanted this myself. I'd certainly welcome a patch for it.
> >> 
> >> Please work from automake trunk. None of the various branches are kept
> >> to date. (Sad but that's the reality.)
> >
> >prob stating the obvious, but $(addprefix) is a GNUism, so if we wanted to
> >use it, it'd required feature probing at configure time, and that always
> >complicates things :(
> 
> No-no, the idea was to make $(addprefix) an automakeism that is resolved 
> before
> GNU make (or any other make) is ever invoked.

i thought your concern was about Makefile.in noise.  Makefile.am is somewhat
mitigated via modules & %D%/ prefixes already.  not that i'm anti expanding
things statically when feasible.
-mike

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