Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
Your question sounds like you want autotools to automatically rebuild the intermediary files when ./configure detects the requisite build-depends. I'd suggest discussing this autotools feature request on the upstream lists instead of here. >From the debian/rules side of things; there isn't yet any

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > there are several tools that generate C source code that is later > complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to > distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not > regenerated during a build. [...] > 1.

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:13:29PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > But my goal is the opposite: I want to *force* automake to regenerate > the files, and preferably not even include them in the distribution. The reason to include the autogenerated files is that while most UNIX based platforms co

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Tautschnig writes: >> there are several tools that generate C source code that is later >> complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to >> distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not >> regenerated during a build. > > Why do you restrict t

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:23:21AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote [edited]: >> there are several tools that generate C source code that is later >> complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to >> distribute these built intermediate files, so

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-29 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:23:21AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote [edited]: > there are several tools that generate C source code that is later > complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to > distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not > regenerated

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-29 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > there are several tools that generate C source code that is later > complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to > distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not > regenerated during a build. > [...] Why do you restrict this question to g