Fwd: Solved: Need Code to Run Before Targets Are Processed?

[Ineiev]

Awfully sorry, sent it from a wrong address.
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From: Ineiev <address@hidden>
Date: Aug 4, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Solved: Need Code to Run Before Targets Are Processed?
To: Bobby Dill <address@hidden>
Cc: Automake <address@hidden>

Sorry for delay.

 On 8/4/08, Bobby Dill <address@hidden> wrote:
 >  Just wanted to let everyone know I figured out what Ineiev solution was.

Just wanted to explain in more detail for those who did not.
 Makefile.am.m4 is a template written in m4 without
 Autoconf redefinitions and macros.
 You put in it some macro definitions ( define(MYPROJECT_FORM...),
 some instantiations of these macros (MYPROJECT_FORM(`mainform'))
 and all that you write in usual Makefile.am -- this stuff will hopefully go to
 the generated Makefile.am verbatim. In order to honour Makefile.am
 dependency on Makefile.am.m4, you also place in Makefile.am.m4 this rule:

 >> Makefile.am: Makefile.am.m4
 >>         m4 $(srcdir)/Makefile.am.m4 > $(srcdir)/Makefile.am

Autoreconf will not generate/regenerate Makefile.am by itself.
 To my mind, this is the greatest disadvantage of this solution.
 To generate it first time (or when something has broken) issue
 m4 Makefile.am.m4 > Makefile.am
 from the sources directory. After that Makefile.am will regenerate when you
 build the project.

 >  One of these days I will get around to writing an extension for
 >  automake to handle qt. Are there any documents that give an
overview into how
 >  automake works?

info automake, I think.

 Regards,
 Ineiev