Hi Nick. On 01/19/2012 09:27 PM, Nick Bowler wrote: > > [SNIP] > > Interestingly, if you actually stick a line exactly like the above into > your Makefile.am, Automake will actually do "The Right Thing™" and > creates the .Po stub as if you had actually specified the source file > normally. Presumably you'd be relying on totally unsupported internal > behaviour of Automake in this case, though. :) > If you feel like writing a complete example of how to (ab)use this feature in practice, so that a user can add source files at make time and have automatic dependency tracking work nonetheless, that would make a great addition to the automake manual and testsuite. Otherwise I'll try to cook up an example myself in the next days (no promise though).
Best regards, Stefano
