On Friday, November 4th, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Can't you just make it depend on the other source files? > > builddate.c: $(geoidx_SOURCES) > echo ... > > Don't forget to mention the header file somewhere, by the > way (in geoidx_SOURCES would be fine).
I could, but what about any other libraries (explicitly added by me or system libraries) that my executable depends on? I send this to Warren privately by mistake yesterday, but I did come up with something that works. Not sure if it's a good idea though. It seems risky somehow. geoidx_LINK = rm -f builddate.c;\ echo '\#include <builddate.h>' >builddate.c; \ echo >>builddate.c; \ echo 'const char *BuildDate = "$(BUILDTIME)";' >>builddate.c; \ $(COMPILE) -c builddate.c builddate.$(OBJEXT); \ $(LINK) -o $@ builddate.$(OBJEXT) > Side note: if you want to be portable to non-GNU make (I > don't know whether that is interesting for you), you can > replace > > | BUILDTIME = $(shell TZ=UTC date --utc) > > with > | BUILDTIME = `TZ=UTC date --utc` Thanks. I'll do this. -DB
