Re: Non-recursive makefiles

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 24 May 2006, Olly Betts wrote:
> * I'm not sure what to call the Makefile.am snippets in the
>  subdirectories.  I looked at GraphicsMagick which was suggested to be

Likewise. :-)

>  harder to maintain.  It'd be really handy to have a way to
>  automatically prepend the directory that the current snippet was
>  included with.  So after "include foo/Makefile.am", I can write:
>
>  libmain_la_SOURCES +/= foo.c bar.c baz.c
>
>  and that would be equivalent to the version above.  "+/=" looks odd
>  but doesn't collide with anything currently valid, and would allow
>  ":/=" and "/=" to do the same magic to ":=" and "=".  I'm not at all
>  wedded to this syntax, it's just the best that's occurred to me so far.

It is an interesting approach.  The other issue with included 
Makefiles is the formulation of Automake target names (including all 
target-specific variables) which must include underscores in all the 
right places if the target is also to be written to a subdirectory. 
This can be very tedious for projects with many targets.  I find this 
aspect to be more tedious than listing the sources.  A syntax which is 
aware of a "local" directory would be useful here as well.

Bob
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