Re: How to extend automake?

[Tom Howard]

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Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Tom Howard wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Awesome! Terrific! Many many thanks for the hint.

Glad I could help.

> Harald Dunkel wrote:
> 
>>It would be pretty cool if Automake could append this
>>automagically when generating the Makefile.in files.
> 
> 
> How could it know to which Makefile.ins it should append it? There are
> typically several Makefile.ams for one configure.ac.

The only feasible answer is all of them.  This is what I do in my
projects, which means I also need to take extra care to make sure the
Makefile fragments work from any directory in the hierarchy.

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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