I thought I sent this message but I never saw it show up. If it's a
dup, please excuse me.
Jim.
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I like to include my subversion version number in my rpm spec file so I
can keep track of the source used to generate the binary. I've been
manually changing it but since I forget to sometimes, I'd like for make
to generate the spec file for me. I wrote a small perl program that
reads a template file (.tmpl) and writes out the .spec file after
calling subversion . -n. I can't figure out how to force make from a
Makefile.am to run the perl script each time it builds.
I thought I could do it with SUFFIXES but when I tried it didn't work.
I added the following to the top level Makefile.am:
noinst_PROGRAMS = poll.spec
poll_tmpl_SOURCES = poll.tmpl FORCE
.tmpl.spec:
./logpoll.pl $<
FORCE:
However make still has rules looking for a poll.c. I received the
following:
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jlynch/threaded'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `poll.c', needed by `poll.o'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlynch/threaded'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I also tried bin_PROGRAMS=poll.spec but received the same error. I
don't really want to install the spec file anywhere, just build it.
Can anyone suggest how I might accomplish what I thought was going to be
a simple task?
Thanks,
Jim.
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