Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files & wildcards (onceagain)

2002-05-07 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Alex> Certainly would. The problem I had with suffix rules, was that one Alex> invocation of the idl compiler on one .idl file expands into many .h and Alex> .cpp files, therefore I needed a suffix rule for each product. So far so A

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files & wildcards (onceagain)

2002-05-07 Thread Ralf Corsepius
Am Die, 2002-05-07 um 10.26 schrieb Alex Hornby: > On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 06:30, Tom Tromey wrote: > > Nowadays we could probably implement pattern rules purely in automake. > > Back in the old days we didn't have the machinery to allow this. > > Automake itself was too primitive. But now it would

Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files & wildcards (onceagain)

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Hornby
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alex> I think the recommended way is to add suffix rules to produce the built > alex> sources, not edit the Makefile.ins. > > But is this really portable ? I looked at automake 1.4 info pages, and it tells > something about GNU make: Suffi