Re: patch and dist rules

2008-05-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Jack, a few humble ideas: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:59:44PM -0700, Jack Bates wrote: > patch: patch-stamp > patch-stamp: patches/* > cat patches/* | patch -p0 > > touch $@ Please note that this rule is not perfect; when one of the patches is deleted, the rule does not notice

Re: patch and dist rules

2008-05-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Jack Bates wrote: > I created a "patch" rule in our application Makefile.am for applying > these patches: > > patch: patch-stamp > patch-stamp: patches/* > cat patches/* | patch -p0 > > touch $@ It seems to me like this would break VPATH builds since it assumes you're building i

patch and dist rules

2008-05-03 Thread Jack Bates
We are developing an application using a framework. Both the application and the framework are maintained using Subversion. The Subversion repository for the application defines a Subversion "external" for the framework: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html This saves