Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Andreas Otto wrote on Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:28:16PM CEST:
>> I missing one target in automake to create a binary distribution
>
> You can just write one in your Makefile.am, as a plain 'make' rule.
> For reusability, you can also put it in a fragment file and include it
> in your Makefile.am.
I have a "best practice" question about this. For awhile,
I've had generic targets that I like to include in all of
my projects, but rather than including the fragment in
each Makefile.am, I use the following hack^h^h^h^htechnique:
configure.ac invokes my initialization macro (which I
install on my dev box in /usr/local/share/aclocal rather
than putting in a subdir of each project), this creates
the make rule file snippets in a new subdir of the builddir
at configure time and AC_SUBST_FILES them so that the Makefile.am
can contain:
@MY_DEFAULT_RULES@
This mostly works, but there are a few cases where I need to
have the generated snippet file be just the rule, so I can do
things like:
check-local:
@MY_LOCAL_RULES@
The question is: is that a reliable technique, or is it a
ridiculous hack that will someday come to haunt me?
--
William Pursell
