Re: Automake extension mechanism?

[David Ventimiglia]

Hi Peter,

I suspected that it could or must be done by way of configure.ac and
additional m4 macros. That's not a problem at all.  I was just wondering if
there was anything "native" to Automake for this.  In any case, this should
work just fine.  Thanks!

Cheers,
David


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Peter Johansson <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> 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
>