>>>>> "Pontus" == Pontus Lidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pontus> I'm having a problem with my idl files. Dependencies in them
Pontus> can not be found automatically by automake it seems. I'd like
Pontus> in some way to specify to automake how to automatically find
Pontus> dependencies.
There's no way to do this right now as a user. Well, you could do it
by duplicating a lot of the automake Makefile machinery. That is
likely to be a big pain though.
Pontus> The problem is this; by default make will try to process an
Pontus> idl file foo.idl, and immediatly after compile it. But if
Pontus> foo.idl includes bar.idl, then the generated foo.cc and foo.hh
Pontus> will have a dependency on bar.cc and bar.hh.
Won't foo.cc and foo.hh depend on bar.idl, not bar.cc? I thought the
IDL compiler would read the .idl files and not the .cc files.
Direct IDL support would probably be a useful addition to automake.
There have been discussions of this in the past, and some patches
(which I admit I haven't read). I don't think this will go in 1.5,
but it would probably be appropriate for the next major release. I'm
guessing it will be somewhat of a pain due to the wide variance
between IDL compilers.
Tom
