Re: Antwort: Re: Feature request: meta files & wildcards (once again)

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Christoph" ==   <address@hidden> writes:

Christoph> Yes and no. Take the example of QT's moc files. They have
Christoph> to be generated from .h files, if the class defined in the
Christoph> .h file does mention a Q_OBJECT macro. I would love to have
Christoph> something in my Makefiles which greps for the string
Christoph> Q_OBJECT in all .h files this directory contains. For each
Christoph> file where this is found, the moc has to be started. I
Christoph> think this is not possible at the current time without
Christoph> writing a script which edits the Makefile.in's (this is
Christoph> what KDE Developers do).

It would have been friendlier to automake to pick a new extension.
Alas.

I would prefer if there were some way that automake could accomodate
KDE without requiring rewriting the Makefile.in.  That seems pretty
fragile.

Tom