Re: Conditional append

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:26:04AM -0800, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> bin_PROGRAMS=hello
> CLEANFILES=something
> include $(top_srcdir)/extra.am
> 
> or simply
> 
> bin_PROGRAMS=goodbye
> include $(top_srcdir)/extra.am
> 
> and extra.am needs to add one file to CLEANFILES in both cases.

well, I see two ways:

1) Either each Makefile.am calling extra.am has to set CLEANFILES, so the
later snippet has to set
        CLEANFILES =
before the include.  It shouldn't be difficult to make that change
automatically.

2) Or the extra.am starts with
        CLEANFILES =
and each caller takes care not to touch it before the include.
So the former snippet will become

bin_PROGRAMS = hello
include $(top_srcdir)/extra.am
CLEANFILES += something

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal