It is common style to generate c/cpp source files from some meta-languages. Examples are lex, yacc, QT's moc, swig, and probably many other tools. AFAIK there is currently no way to handle such files in automake and the recommended way is to write scripts editing Makefile.in's to add seperate rules for each file to be generated. This looks really unsatisfying to me because these scripts depend on current automake versions (see recently threads concerning KDE's am_edit script) and writing these scripts requires much effort.
Though i have read some of the threads concerning wildcards in automake i once again suggest to integrate them into the automake stuff, because i believe that many developers would benefit from them. If i have a directory, which contains source files for exactly one executable / library, i do not want to list them redundantly in a Makefile.am (because i often forget to do so and the information is already there). I believe that most projeft structures are organised in that way and many people would like to list files using wildcards. Best Regards, Christoph
