Re: How to extend automake?

[Tom Howard]

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Hi Bruno,

> How can I extend automake (other than submitting a patch and waiting for
> automake-1.10 to be released)?
[...snip...]
> What I want to do is to ship with bison (and similarly, other programs) an
> autoconf macro and an automake extension, so that all packages which use
> bison and a Makefile.am could use the extension by adding a single line to
> their Makefile.am.

The best way I've found to do this sort of think, is to create an
autoconf macro that generates a Makefile fragment and use AC_SUBST_FILE
on that. I'm (still) in the process of updating a few things but you can
see what I'm doing at

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sserver/m4/

and more specifically

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/sserver/m4/ax_add_mk_macro.m4

I used ax_add_mk_macro in ax_dist_rpm.m4 so that in my projects I can run

make dist-rpm

to create an rpm distribution.  Using these macros, all I have to add to
the Makefile.am is @INCLUDE_MK@ at the end.

HTH.

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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