Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

[Tom Howard]

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On 09/02/2005, at 9:10 AM, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> How does this things require the Makefile fragment to be
> generated?  IOW, why not simply `include common-rules.mk'?

Actually I originally did it this way, but some of the rules are only 
placed in common-rules.mk in certain circumstances, which is checked by 
the m4 macro (previously I was using am conditionals), which meant 
there were two files for each extra rule (or group of rules).  Also 
different projects may not require the same common rules, so I prefer 
to keep separate functionality in separate files, but doing so as 
different mk files makes including them all in each Makefile awkward.

Finally, I'm hoping that the functionality the extra rules provide will 
be useful to others and while there is an technique and archive for 
autoconf extensions, there doesn't (to my knowledge) seem to be one for 
extending automake.  If you have any other suggestions please let me 
know.  Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Tom
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