* John Calcote wrote on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:57:12PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Automake has no builtin rules for moc files. So you need to take this > > up with whoever provides those rules. FWIW, in one package this is what > > we use: > > I was wondering how difficult it would be to modify Automake such that > true extensions could be written.
Well, since almost all content of Makefile.am is copied verbatim into the output file, you can extend using plain make code. I understand that's not what you're after. > For example, Automake has built-in > support for Libtool's LTLIBRARIES primitive. Wouldn't it be cool to > support a type of primary extension file, that would allow one to define > a new type of primary? This file would provide the rules that a new > primary would support, lists that it would update - like the distro file > list, etc. > > Just a thought. Would this be particularly difficult? Doing this would be much more work. At least I don't see how it could be done easily. Cheers, Ralf
