On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:23:59PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Bob Rossi wrote: > > I would like to automake this by writing a wrapper like, > > AM_GEN(foo.xml) > > I'm not sure that configure-time is where you want to deal with this.
Wow, your answer is great, and shows how little I actually know about make. However, it proves to me even slightly more that I want to generate these rules somehow (because the generated rules are reasonably verbose). Why are you not sure this is a good idea? > > Is this possible? If so, is there some documentation on how to do it? > > I looked through the manual and didn't see it, or just missed it. > > Remember that you can write arbitrary Makefile syntax in Makefile.am and > it is simply copied through to the output file, so in that sense you > don't have to use any special syntax to extend automake, just pretend > it's not there. Yes, I do know that, and that's how I got this far. Basically, I write these rules in several Makefile.am's, since I have multiple directory setup. I would love to not duplicate the make code, and hide it all behind a single function call that can be expanded. Is this possible? Thanks again! Bob Rossi
