Re: Getting long SOURCES lines with subdirs shorter

Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Monday 2023-07-17 06:55, John Darrington wrote:

>Why not just write it as:
>
>a_SOURCES = aprog/main.c \
>   aprog/foo.c \
>   aprog/bar.c \
>   aprog/baz.c ...

You're missing the point.

If you have a hundred, two hundred source files, all the aprog/ prefixes 
(and it's rarely *that* short) add up to the filesize of Makefile.am.
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