I expect that Automake conditionals with traditional make rules for
the intermediate targets wrapped up in a conditional will do the
trick. If you use Automake's maintainer-mode feature, then you can
use
if MAINTAINER_MODE
foo.c : foo.bar
dosomething
endif
There is also a MAINTAINER_TARGETS variable that you can use to add
additional targets for when maintainer mode is activated. This won't
help if your foo.c is already depended on by a normal target but it
may have value for other maintainer purposes.
Bob
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Peter Ekberg wrote:
Hello!
I have the following needs:
1. Extract some data from a list of files using script foo.
2. Process the data further using a second script bar.
3. Concatenate the processed data.
4. Run a third script foobar on the concatenation to
produce a .c file.
5. Distribute the generated .c file, so that only
the maintainer (me) needs to run 1-4.
6. Use the generated .c file as usual.
I have made an attempt as outlined in the attached sample,
with silly barebones scripts to save some bandwidth.
Run "./bootstrap; ./configure; make" to test the attempt.
My attempt fails the last bit of point 5, the scripts are
triggered for everyone, even when the generated .c file is
newer than any of its dependencies.
The real project where this is needed currently requires
GNU make, and is using the .INTERMEDIATE target, just add
.INTERMEDIATE: $(FOOBARS) splunk.foobar
to Makefile.am and use GNU make to get the behaviour I desire.
Is there a portable solution to my needs?
Cheers,
Peter
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
