Re: Automake extension mechanism?

[Peter Johansson]

On 22/08/14 10:55, David Ventimiglia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does Automake provide any kind of extension mechanism so that one can
> produce, and possibly share, useful Makefile fragments?
Hi David,

What I've chosen to do is to write autoconf macros that generate these 
Automake fragments, so all I need to do as user is to call the macro in 
'configure.ac' and include the fragment file in my 'Makefile.am'. The 
real benefit of that is when the macro has been modified and aclocal 
will take care of updating the macro in each project and the automake 
fragments are re-generated. An example of this idea you can see in macro 
YAT_SVN_REVISION found here 
http://dev.thep.lu.se/yat/svn/trunk/m4/yat_am_macros.m4

Cheers,
Peter