Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Givena_SOURCES = aprog/main.c aprog/foo.c aprog/bar.c aprog/baz.c ...The more source files there are to be listed, the longer that line gets, the bigger the Makefile.am fragment becomes, etc. I am thinking about how to cut that repetition down. Current automake likely won't have anything in store already, so I'm thinking of editing automake and targeting a future automake release.
While this does not reduce the repetition, Automake allows backslash-continuation on these lines. DejaGnu uses it to list files one per line in some places; see <URL:http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dejagnu.git/tree/Makefile.am>.
-- Jacob
