Hi "NF", (weird name, by the way :)
* NF wrote on Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:35:44PM CEST: > is there any way to make dependencies appear early in prerequisite? No, as far as I know. It also doesn't make much sense, if you will allow for parallel `make'. > currently , if we have a makefile.am contains: > > foo_DEPENDENCIES = bar > > then in makefile.in, we 'll get something like: *snip* > but what is expected is > > foo_DEPENDENCIES = bar > foo: $foo_DEPENDENCIES $foo-obj > > > in case which we need to use build-time generacted program to do > something before compile sources of this rule. Check out the Automake documentation about BUILT_SOURCES, e.g. in info Automake Sources Probably that is what you're looking for. Or generate manual dependencies (and rules) for either objects or sources, whatever is really needed in your case. Cheers, Ralf
