Harlan Stenn wrote:
>> Unfortunately, going this route will mean my project loses all CVS
>> history information :( If only sourceforge were using subversion. (Yes,
>> I know they plan to do so "real soon now".)
>
> Ah. Can you copy the ,v files to the new dir and then cvs rm the old
> ones?
Nope.
> (I hate cvs - this is one reason why.)
>
>> Just to be clear here, the *only way* to get automake to honour the
>> dependencies I specified in my first mail is to use subdirs to control
>> the build order?
>
> There may be some other way - if you are willing to require folks to
> "follow the instructions" instead of having folks decide to arbitrarily
> jump to some subdir and type "make" there in order to get the beast to
> build you can get around some problems that way.
>
> Here are some possible choices:
>
> - use AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS() to produce your generated files:
> AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([gen-pstuff], [make -C subdir]) so they will be
> ready for the top-level build
Won't work, as I need to "make" a library to link against kconfig_compiler.
> - Carefully place '.' in SUBDIRS and use a (possibly new) subdir ahead
> of '.' to produce the generated files
Won't work with BUILT_SOURCES, as BUILT_SOURCES is executed before SUBDIRS
are considered. (Apparently.)
Nonetheless, thanks for your help.
...Late press: I have a solution! Not sure how pretty this is, but it does
work.
Angus
SUBDIRS = kdelibs .
# Have to remove these files from BUILT_SOURCES as otherwise they're
# the first thing that make tries to do.
BUILT_SOURCES = \
version.cpp \
- kvsprefs.cpp \
- kvsprefs.h \
- psheader.c \
- prefs.cpp \
- prefs.h \
$(nodist_qdvi_SOURCES) $(UIFILES:.ui=.moc)
# Add 'em here, so that things get cleaned up.
DISTCLEANFILES += \
config.h \
+ kvsprefs.cpp \
+ kvsprefs.h \
+ psheader.c \
+ prefs.cpp \
+ prefs.h \
stamp-version \
version.cpp-tmp \
$(BUILT_SOURCES)
CONFIG_COMPILER = kdelibs/kconfig_compiler$(EXEEXT)
bin_PROGRAMS = qdvi
noinst_PROGRAMS = squeeze
qdvi_SOURCES = \
... \
kvsprefs.cpp \
kvsprefs.h \
... \
prefs.cpp \
prefs.h \
...
# Make the objects depend explicitly on the generated files.
# Triggers there generation using the rules below.
+$(qdvi_OBJECTS): kvsprefs.cpp kvsprefs.h prefs.cpp prefs.h psheader.c
+
+kvsprefs.h: kvsprefs.cpp
kvsprefs.cpp: kviewshell.kcfg kvsprefs.kcfgc
$(CONFIG_COMPILER) $(srcdir)/kviewshell.kcfg $(srcdir)/kvsprefs.kcfgc
+prefs.h: prefs.cpp
+
prefs.cpp: kdvi.kcfg prefs.kcfgc
$(CONFIG_COMPILER) $(srcdir)/kdvi.kcfg $(srcdir)/prefs.kcfgc
squeeze_SOURCES = squeeze.c
psheader.c: psheader.txt squeeze$(EXEEXT)
./squeeze$(EXEEXT) $(srcdir)/psheader.txt $@
