>>> "Sander" == Sander Niemeijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Sander> Now I recently discovered that automake places the Sander> rules to rebuild foo.h from foo.h.in (with the use of a Sander> stamp-h* file) in the Makefile of the directory where Sander> foo.h will appear if that directory has a Makefile and Sander> otherwise put it in the toplevel Makefile. But it won't Sander> put these rules in any of the other Makefiles. Of Sander> course this leaves me with a problem if I change Sander> foo.h.in and perform a make, since for targets in my Sander> subdirectories that depend on foo.h make won't try to Sander> rebuild foo.h and thus these targets won't be rebuild Sander> either. I've been bitten by this too. I added your email to the Cc: list for PR/355. Sander> I would like to know whether anybody knows a way to have the foo.h.in Sander> -> foo.h (with appropriate stamp-h* usage) dependencies included in Sander> all my makefiles that contain targets with dependencies on foo.h. No idea :( Except handwriting these rules, of course, but that means you must know how stamp files are numbered. Sander> I'm currently considering to let configure create a separate foo.h in Sander> each of the directories that need foo.h (through a Sander> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([dir1/foo.h:inc/foo.h.in dir2/foo.h:inc/foo.h.in]), This looks safer. [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
