Hello Paul, * Paul Elliott wrote on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:01:49PM CET: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 01:54:33 am Paul Elliott wrote: > > 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.
Instead of foo_SOURCES += treat-as-header.c write EXTRA_DIST += treat-as-header.c and be done with it. > Can I write a rule for the .lo that has to be compiled with the wierd > include that would explictly list the .c file as a dependancy? How would I do > that? Is the .c file generated? If yes, then try adding it to BUILT_SOURCES, if not, then the automatic dependency tracking should pick up the dependency for you when the object is built for the first time. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
