Re: More fun with BUILT_SOURCES

[Braden McDaniel]

On 25 Nov 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Braden" == Braden McDaniel <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> > I realize that BUILT_SOURCES is known to be problematic, but I haven't
> >> > found any other solution. Any suggestions?
>
> >> Add explicit dependencies on it.  There's no other way to ensure it's
> >> generated.  BUILT_SOURCES used to work only with GNU make.
>
> Braden> Each source file for my library depends on the generated
> Braden> header, directly or indirectly. Is it possible for me to add
> Braden> explicit dependencies *and* keep the libfoo_la_SOURCES
> Braden> variable? I'm trying to hang on to all of automake's benefits
> Braden> that I possibly can.
>
> You should be able to do that.
>
> I'd really like to find a better solution for the built files
> problem.  This is currently too hard to do in automake.

I ended up doing this:

  $(libfoo_la_OBJECTS): mybuiltheader.h

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