Re: Conditionals in Makefile.am

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Pekka" == Pekka Riikonen <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Pekka> FILES =                 \
 Pekka> somefile.c      \
 Pekka> if HAVE_SOMETHING
 Pekka> someotherfile.c \
 Pekka> endif
 Pekka> if HAVE_SOMETHING_ELSE
 Pekka> somethingelse.c \
 Pekka> endif
 Pekka> something.c

 Pekka> This sort of thing is not possible now and makes it
 Pekka> really ugly to use the conditionals in makefiles, imo.
 Pekka> Currently only way to do this is to conditionalize the
 Pekka> entire FILES variable.  Alternatively it could just
 Pekka> remove the lines not to be included.

Sorry, I forgot to reply to this.  A simpler solution is to use
a sub-variable.

FILES = somefile.c $(FILES_IF_SOMETHING) $(FILES_IF_SOMETHING_ELSE) something.c
if HAVE_SOMETHING
FILES_IF_SOMETHING = someotherfile.c
endif
if HAVE_SOMETHING_ELSE
FILES_IF_SOMETHING_ELSE = somethingelse.c
endif


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Alexandre Duret-Lutz