Re: Getting long SOURCES lines with subdirs shorter

Václav Haisman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17. 07. 23 18:27, Václav Haisman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Found the docs: 
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Include.html

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VH
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