>>> "Guillaume" == Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guillaume> Hello. Guillaume> A colleague of mine developped a custom language for Guillaume> natural language processing, called DyALog Guillaume> (http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/work.html#DyALog). In Guillaume> order to ease module development, he also extended Guillaume> automake to support this language. However, he is Guillaume> currently maintaining it as a patch against current Guillaume> automake version, which is quite a nightmare. Guillaume> Is there a more convenient way for doing this ? Right now I believe the only maintainable way is to distribute a Makefile fragment that contains the suffix rules for your language, and let users include this fragment in their Makefile.am. This won't cope with per-target flags, or subdir compilation without subdir-objects, but that should be pretty usable nonetheless. There is a long-term plan for modularizing Automake to ease the addition of new features (using Perl modules). However such overhauling of the Automake internal is not easy, and given the current development pace you should not expect this to happen any time soon. Unless somebody comes and helps. (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/contribute.html) Unfortunately I'm maintaining Automake almost alone, with limited time, and my priorities are to correct bugs and to improve the documentation. Guillaume> I suppose you don't intend to accept a patch for Guillaume> every minor research language in the world. Indeed. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
