On Wednesday 2014-11-12 20:15, Nick Bowler wrote:
>On 2014-11-12 16:58 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Using automake-1.13.4, when using the following Makefile.am fragment,
>> .k.${OBJEXT}:
>> gcc -x c -c $< -o $@
>> I observe that bar.o is not built and not linked into foo.
>
>Indeed, the use of custom file extensions in _SOURCES seems to be
>completely borken. [...]
>I didn't even know this was a feature at all, but sure enough it's
>documented[1]. [...]
>I suggest ignoring this functionality entirely, because the sane way to
>add custom compiler rules is to use _LDADD or _LIBADD.
Heh, I just came from _LDADD and EXTRA_DIST, because that
was not documented. _SOURCES was.
I do not mind which way, but something should be fixed —
either the automake program, or its documentation :)
