Re: building a qt library

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Craig,

* Craig Sanders wrote on Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:47:25AM CET:
> To be honest, I also thought that there might have been a more elegant
> way in which to implement the custom rule for invoking the Qt Meta
> Object Compiler (moc) on the C++ source code files. That is, the rule
> which I have quoted below.
> 
>   .hpp.cpp:
>       @echo ""
>       @echo "----------------------------------------"
>       @echo "moc is creating the file : address@hidden"
>       @echo "... in directory         : address@hidden/"
>       @echo "... from input file      : $< "
>       @echo "$<"
>       @echo ""
>       ${QT_MOC} -o address@hidden $<
> 
> You couldn't recommend a more elegant way in which to accomplish this
> task could you?

Not really.  That's how we do it as well:

.h.moc:
        $(MOC) -i $< -o $@

I don't see it as ugly though.  It's a normal makefile inference rule,
and as such the canonical way to extend Automake functionality.

Cheers,
Ralf