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

[Miles Bader]

2012/1/20 Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>:
>> 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.

Right, my intent is something that _doesn't_ require that, which can
be handled entirely by the configure script.

[That's more or less the whole point of this thread, right?]

-miles

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