Re: Getting long SOURCES lines with subdirs shorter
Václav Haisman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general |
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On 17. 07. 23 0:55, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Given > > a_SOURCES = aprog/main.c aprog/foo.c aprog/bar.c aprog/baz.c ... > > The more source files there are to be listed, the longer that line gets, > the bigger the Makefile.am fragment becomes, etc. I am thinking about > how to cut that repetition down. Current automake likely won't have > anything in store already, so I'm thinking of editing automake and > targeting a future automake release. > > The syntax would need to be understood by automake and expanded at the > right time; Makefile.in should have the expanded list already. How > about recognizing the gmake function syntax? > > a_SOURCES = $(addprefix aprog/,main.c foo.c bar.c baz.c) > You can use the %D% placeholder for the directory of the Makefile.am relative to the source directory. I can't find where I found out about it but it works. E.g., https://github.com/log4cplus/log4cplus/blob/master/src/Makefile.am. You can also generate the Makefile.am from a template using AutoGen to make things even easier. -- VH