Hello Thomas, * Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote on Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:17:48PM CET: > > I'm trying to pass an "include <file>" directive to Makefile.in without > having it interpreted by Automake. > > What I'm trying to do is to update a Makefile variable based on > git-describe to provide a dynamic version string (in a very similar way > to how Git is doing in their own repository). It works nicely on GNU > Make with "-include" and "sinclude" because Automake doesn't interpret > it, but if I use "include" instead it will run Automake on every compile > (and we need to support non-GNU make programs). > > Is it possible to have some lines in Makefile.am included verbatim in > Makefile.in, or any other way to define includes?
If you have to support non-GNU make programs, you can't achieve this with one literal line. Some non-GNU makes may need '.include' instead of 'include', and some need quotes. Exploiting an undocumented Automake feature (please don't complain if upgrading breaks it), you can use @am__include@ @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@am__quote@ (these substitutions will be generated if you use automatic dependency tracking; otherwise, you may need to call the undocument AM_MAKE_INCLUDE macro yourself). Cheers, Ralf
