Re: performing pre-build shell commands with automake

[Wesley Smith]

> However, that said, the correct way to do what you want is to place a
> make dependency between the sources you want to generate, and the
> consumers of those sources. Automake generates normal makefiles (or
> rather makefile.in templates for Autotconf) from Makefile.am files. Some
> of the code in a Makefile.am file contain directives for automake. The
> rest is just make script that is passed through from Makefile.am to
> (ultimately) Makefile.
>
> Just write rules like this:
>
> consumer.o: resource.qt

Thanks for the info.  I'll give it a shot.
wes