appending to BUILT_SOURCES, if appropriate

2010-03-11 Thread Adam Mercer
Hi For one of the projects I work on we need to add something like the following to each Makefile.am to ensure that vcs information is current: vcsID: cd $(top_builddir)/src/lalapps $(MAKE) liblalapps.la BUILT_SOURCES = vcsID As this is going to be the same in each Makefile.am, I would like

Re: appending to BUILT_SOURCES, if appropriate

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/11/2010 01:39 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: include path/to/Makefile.common The problem is that some Makefile.am's already define BUILT_SOURCES, whilst some do not. Is there a way that I can append to BUILT_SOURCES, if it already exists, or define it if it doesn't? How about modifying the

Re: appending to BUILT_SOURCES, if appropriate

2010-03-11 Thread Adam Mercer
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 14:42, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: How about modifying the makefiles that don't append to BUILT_SOURCES to just add the line BUILT_SOURCES= prior to the include, then use BUILT_SOURCES+= in the included file. Of course, great idea! Thanks! Cheers Adam