* Bob Rossi wrote on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:41:20AM CEST: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:22:29PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > > They generate files during build time, and modify BUILT_SOURCES... > > > > In fact, think of the bison or flex extension (adding .y or .l files to > > the _SOURCES variable). That is just another use of this general > > functionality that I'm talking about. In some sense, it would be like me > > adding foo.xml to the _SOURCES, but telling automake how to turn that > > into a .c file. I want to run foo.py, whereas automake runs bison or > > flex. > > > > I'm sure that if this was implemented, a LOT of projects would use it. > > So, is there something I can do to help implement it, with my little > > experience writing make file rules? > > Ping, whatever happened to this idea? You guys think it's stupid?
I don't see a way to formulate it sufficiently general so that it would be useful for more than just a couple of projects. bison and flex need special-cased handling in automake, how do you propose foo.py would not? Cheers, Ralf
