Re: Creating plain Makefiles with automake

[Miles Bader]

Marko Kreen <address@hidden> writes:
>> My experience adding custom make rules to Makefile.am (which AFAICT,
>> mostly just passes them through) is that I typically don't need to use
>> obscure features, mostly it's just bog-standard make rules with some
>> shell-scripting in the build recipe.
>
> Well, user might want few of following features for own rules:
> - out-of-tree builds
> - cross-compilation
> - nice output
> - automatic deps

In many cases, automake features work fine even for custom rules... :]

E.g., you're free to use $(srcdir), $(AM_V_CC), etc, in  your rules.

-miles

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