Why not just write it as:
a_SOURCES = aprog/main.c \ aprog/foo.c \ aprog/bar.c \ aprog/baz.c ... ?? On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 12:55:59AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Given > > a_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. > > The syntax would need to be understood by automake and expanded at the > right time; Makefile.in should have the expanded list already. How > about recognizing the gmake function syntax? > > a_SOURCES = $(addprefix aprog/,main.c foo.c bar.c baz.c)
