Hi Stefano, On 2012-01-20 20:36 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > 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).
When I posted that, it was just an interesting side note. I didn't think that you could use this to help with the "files not known until build time" problem. But now that you mention it, I think I see how it might be used for this purpose. I can certainly try to put something together, but I doubt I'll have time this weekend to do it. Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
