Hello James, * James Willenbring wrote on Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:51:11PM CEST: > When I add > > myexe_DEPENDENCIES = $(PACKAGEA_DEPENDENCIES) > > $(PACKAGEA_DEPENDENCIES) is not resolved before dependencies are checked. > Despite the fact that I put the include directive at the top of the > Makefile.am, it shows up at the bottom of the Makefile. If I manually move > the include directive higher in the makefile (but below the definition of > top_builddir), everything works as I would hope.
Can you show an example Makefile.am plus configure.ac that exposes this problem? > Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing this problem or for a different > approach I should take for dependency tracking? In general, I try to let automake compute dependencies as much as possible. For example, it cannot "see" the dependency with this: -- snip libb/configure.ac -- AC_SUBST([LIBA], [../liba/liba.la]) -- snip libb/Makefile.am -- libb_la_LIBADD = $(LIBA) # next line needed because automake cannot see through substitution libb_la_DEPENDENCIES = $(LIBA) OTOH, it *can* compute the dependency with conditionals: -- snip libb/configure.ac -- AM_CONDITIONAL([NEED_LIBA], [test -n "$need_liba"]) -- snip libb/Makefile.am -- if NEED_LIBA libb_la_LIBADD += ../liba/liba.la endif # No *_DEPENDENCIES needed in this example. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
