I think automake really needs to support this soon. Sounds reasonable to me, but to be clear, Automake will only support things that volunteers care enough about to actually dig into the code and write patches for. New developers/maintainers are needed.
As I previously explained(*) / pleaded, Jim and I simply cannot commit the necessary time for substantive development -- we can't even keep up with incoming bug reports and interesting suggestions. --best, karl. (*) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2021-03/msg00018.html So far the response has been nil.
