(Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with Automake's Fortran support. The following is based on the assumption that Fortran compilers work in a similar manner to C compilers).
On 2011-07-13 07:59 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Dave Goodell wrote: > > Is there a better way? I really expected version 2 to work and was > > surprised when it didn't. > > I've always a) assumed that Automake doesn't have Fortran dependency > analysis, and b) coped with it by adding explicit dependency rules > myself (which is icky). Something like this: > > foo_SOURCES = foo.f bar.h > foo.f: bar.h Note that this isn't quite right: the source file does not actually depend on the header. Such a dependency would imply that if you update the header file, the source file needs to be regenerated. But what one usually wants is for the *object* file to be regenerated when a header is updated: IOW, the compiled object is what depends on the header, not the source file itself. So this would perhaps be better written as foo_obj = foo.$(OBJEXT) # might need to be foo.lo if using libtool. $(foo_obj): bar.h Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
