Re: Make compiling *.S CPPFLAGS aware

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 14:53, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  Ralf> Hi,
>  Ralf> I'd like to propose the patch below, which  
>  Ralf> * splits handling of *.s (asm) and *.S (preprocessed asm) into 2
>  Ralf> separated rule sets.
>  Ralf> * makes handling of *.S-files aware of CPPFLAGS (Similar to gmake's
>  Ralf> behavior), AM_CPPFLAGS and *_CPPFLAGS.
> 
> This sounds sensible to me.  Are you willing to augment this
> patch so it can be committed without additional work?  It needs
> ChangeLog and NEWS entries,
Below are patches to CVS-trunk and automake-1-8-branch.

> documentation update,
Still missing - I haven't gotten around to do it yet.

>  and ideally it
> would have a test case (but it's unclear to me what can be
> tested portably).
Good question - Neither do I.

One aspect that could be tested is whether CPPFLAGS, AM_CPPFLAGS and
*_CPPFLAGS are used for compilation.

An aspect that is not clear to me is portability of *.S compilation in
general (Is it supported by other compilers but gcc?)

> [...]

Ralf

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