Hello Jack,
* Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:37:22PM CEST:
> I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the
> recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have
> had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to
> write rules like this:
>
> 8<---
> doc/fake437-primitive.texi: doc/$(am__dirstamp)
> include/fake437/primitive.h; $(EXTRACT_TEXI)
> --->8
>
> but I feel that using anything starting with $(am__) is asking for
> trouble by relying on internal details.
Right you are in assuming that.
Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory
stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere
with automake's stamps and rules:
subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp
commands ...
subdir/my-dirstamp:
@$(MKDIR_P) subdir
@: > $@
DISTCLEANFILES += subdir/my-dirstamp
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ralf
