Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It would be nice to let other tools that generate dependencies well integrate into automake seamlessly.
presumably "well" means "following depcomp protocol", i.e., the transformer for foo.a to foo.b needs to by side effect create .deps/foo.Pb, in which case automake can generate the "include .deps/foo.Pb" and code to seed them at configure-time w/ "# dummy"? given this, the integration point would lie in generalizing recognition of those directives that trigger inclusion of depcomp machinery, and making that machinery tabular. a conforming tool would need to have installed appropriate support .am from which to draw the machinery, prior to use, of course. also, automake would not need to be so stringent about requiring all .b prerequisites to be statically declared. let me know if these guesses are close to the mark and if you'd be willing to consider a patch to explore such changes. (if not, no big deal.) thi
