* On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > noinst_PROGRAMS = unimain > > unimain_SOURCES = unimain.c > > > > unidata.tab.c: unimain$(EXEEXT) /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt > > ./unimain$(EXEEXT) $< > $@ > > BTW, execution of built programs like this makes your package unsuitable > for cross-compilation. Just so you're aware of that.
Assuming unidata.tab.c is a C-code table containing the information from UnicodeData.txt, I think it could be better to generate it by some shell code (maybe inside the Makefile.am, saving a tool) or to use perl (for the price of adding perl to the build dependencies) or, if UnicodeData rarely changes, add unidata.tab.c to the package and have some `maintainer only' helper target to build it (with unidata.tab.c as distributed source file). People who don't care about unidata.tab.c can build the package even without UnicodeData.txt (if this makes any sense, I don't know what this is for of course :)) oki, Steffen
