Paul Elliott <pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com> writes: > I have a c library that currently uses an old style Makefile that I want > to convert to auto*tools.
> One .c file is used as a .h file. That is, it is included by another .c > file and it should not be itself compiled. Why the author did this I do > not know, but I do not want to change the author's source or change or > rename any files. > How do I tell auto*tools to treat this file as a .h file? That is, do > not try to compile this file itself, and do include it in the files to > be distributed. The easiest way is to add it to the EXTRA file list for the given target. In other words, if this is used to build libfoo.a, then add: EXTRA_libfoo_a_SOURCES = foo.c to your Makefile.am. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>