On 04/23/2012 04:53 PM, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Hello, > > that is the point. I want to include "Mfilename" in the very beginning of > Makefile.in. > With the current Automake implementation, you basically can't. Sorry.
> You said, that Automake automatically makes sure, that all variables are > defined, before they are used, but Automake has not idea what Mfilename > contains (Mfilename does not exist when Automake is run). > Your understanding is correct. > So how can it make sure, that the variables defined in Mfilename are > defined at the time they are used, when "-include Mfilename" is put > near the end of Makefile.in (after _SOURCES is defined) and Automake > has no idea what Mfilename contains? > You can't, not with the current Automake implementation. [BEGIN SHAMELESS ADVERTISEMENT] I have recently-ish started a friedly fork of Automake, Automake-NG: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/automake-ng> (sorry, it has no real home page yet) that requires GNU make and aims, among the other things, at making use cases like your possible eventually; this has recently been accomplished for the $(TESTS) special variable: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-ng/2012-04/msg00054.html> But it will be quite a long time before this could work for the far more complex beasts like the _SOURCES primary and friends. [END SHAMELESS ADVERTISEMENT] > I cannot insert "-include Mfilename" before using any variable, > because Automake inserts "-include Mfilename" after I have used > the variables in "_SOURCES" and "_LDADD". > And anyway, even including it before wouldn't halp you, because Automake must process the definitions of things like foo_SOURCES at automake runtime, not at make time, in order to work. > So how can I include Mfilename at the beginning of Makefile.in? > The sad bottom line is: you can't, and even if you could, it would not help your use case :-( Regards, Stefano