Hello Eric, Steffen, long ago:
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 08:08:05PM CEST: > On 05/17/2010 12:02 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:41:08AM CEST: > >> Right now, either you use foo_DEPENDENCIES and have to list everything > >> yourself, or you omit it, and automake does a good job. But what about > >> the case where you want automake to do its automatic dependencies, and > >> then you add one more file? It seems like it would be nice to support > >> foo_DEPENDENCIES += other_file, without requiring that foo_DEPENDENCIES= > >> previously occur in the file. > > > > Yes, such a mechanism would be nice. The Automake way wouldn't be to > > allow 'foo_DEPENDENCIES +=' without prior initialization though (that > > would defeat typo detection, and probably complicate the internal logic > > wrt. conditionals), but adding of another variable to the default list > > of foo_DEPENDENCIES. I guess. Suggestions for naming such a variable? > > How about 'foo_EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES'? * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:08:19PM CEST: > > foo_EXTRA_DEPS? EXTRA_foo_DEPENDENCIES would fit even better with the Uniform naming scheme, it fits right in with EXTRA_foo_SOURCES. Thanks everyone for the suggestions, sorry for the delay. I'm following up on automake-patches with the implementation. Cheers, Ralf
