Am Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:36:36 +0200 schrieb Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello, > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:48:13PM +0100, Thomas Porschberg wrote: > > %.qm: %.ts > > $(PROG1) $< > > > > foo.h: foo.qm > > $(top_srcdir)/utils/PROG2 < $< > $@ > ... > > PROG2 expected foo.qm now in BUILDDIR/src and not under > > project/src/. (surprisingly it worked when I started make a second > > time ?!) > > It seems that on the second run make was able to find the .qm file > using the VPATH feature. But during the first attempt, the file > wasn't there at the startup and make didn't expect that the rule will > create it there. > > > I change the rule now to: > > > > %.qm: %.ts > > $(PROG1) $< -qm $@ > > > > Now foo.qm is created in BUILDDIR/src and utils/PROG2 has no > > problem. > > It's always better when you create non-distributed files in builddir. OK, so I was not barking up the wrong tree. > > There are two tiny problems, though: > > 1) you should be sure that src/foo.qm doesn't exist; if it existed, > some make implementations would update it, instead of creating a new > one in BUILDDIR/src (see ``Limitations of Make'' in the Autoconf > manual). > > 2) the rule is more portable this way: > > .ts.qm: > $(PROG1) $< -qm $@ > Thank you for the hints. I will take it into account. Thomas --
