Marko Kreen <mark...@gmail.com> writes: >> My experience adding custom make rules to Makefile.am (which AFAICT, >> mostly just passes them through) is that I typically don't need to use >> obscure features, mostly it's just bog-standard make rules with some >> shell-scripting in the build recipe. > > Well, user might want few of following features for own rules: > - out-of-tree builds > - cross-compilation > - nice output > - automatic deps
In many cases, automake features work fine even for custom rules... :] E.g., you're free to use $(srcdir), $(AM_V_CC), etc, in your rules. -miles -- values of β will give rise to dom!
