On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: > > Obviously, if you and I are building systems to emulate wildcards, its because > there is definitively a need for wildcards to be supported. Should we make a > feature request?
Wildcards are for lazy programmers who are willing to allow wrong files to be built or distributed by accident. The existing Automake -hook targets provide package authors with considerable control over what gets distributed, installed, and uninstalled. Since they can execute arbitrary shell code, wildcards can be supported for any target which supports -hook. Using run-time Makefile includes is not portable. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
