On May 31, 2000, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Alex> Is there already an expand_make_variable() type function?
>
> Yes. You can use variable_value_as_list in automake to do this. But
> really you'll want to have direct support for IDL in automake, so that
> IDL files can be listed directly in _SOURCES and be collated by
> automake.
Does variable_value_as_list support variable substitutions? I'm using
automake 1.4, and I couldn't get them to work properly. They seemed to
have some strange side-effects. For example, the following snippet
errors out when it can't find the "shell32" target.
IMPORTS = shell32 comdlg32 ole32 winspool.drv
bin_PROGRAMS = clock
clock_LDADD = $(IMPORTS:%=-l%)
It grabs $(IMPORTS) instead of $(IMPORTS:%=-l%) to add to dep_list,
which results in a bad _DEPENDENCIES:
clock_DEPENDENCIES = shell32 comdlg32 ole32 winspool.drv
Does CVS automake handle this better? I also had problems putting
substitutions into a _SOURCES variable.
John
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