On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Samuel> I'm looking for a way to make automake to hit a custom target > Samuel> the first thing it does (eg something that is like all-local, > Samuel> but gets executed before anything else). Is there a simple way > Samuel> of achieving this? > > Right now I suppose you could abuse BUILT_SOURCES to do this. > Why do you need to do this?
I've been working a bit at converting openssl to use auto tools for the build process and since I want to avoid touching source code as much as possible I had to find a way to set up links between header files in the source directories and $(top_srcdir)/include/openssl before building anything. Since I currently have to use automake 1.4 I couldn't really use BUILT_SOURCES (would have been nice). In the end I solved it by adding a makefile that does the linking in include/openssl and putting that directory before anything else in the toplevel makefile. /Sam
