Re: allowing users to add source files without rerunning the autotools?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, Miles Bader wrote:
> One interesting thing would be to add some simple automake feature to
> allow specifying this stuff explicitly via some interface
> (e.g. AM_EXTRA_SOURCE_FILES([blah.c barf.h]) in configure, or something
> like that).  That might make it possible to really do this stuff
> correctly without too much work for the developer, by letting him take
> advantage of some of the lower-level automake machinery.

This sort of thing is already well supported by Automake via Makefile 
includes.  But it does require that automake be executed again.

Bob
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