John Barrett writes: > I've got some code from another project that I'm trying to hook into FG... > it uses a short compiled program to generate a header file used by the rest > of the package... I've added the program to Makefile.am, and it builds, now, > how do I get that program to execute before the library that depends on the > header is compiled ?? (library code in the same folder and same Makefile.am > as the header generator program)
This is starting to get into some tricky automake/autoconf voodoo if you want to run compiled programs in the middle of the build. Also consider that this could hose anyone who might want to cross compile. I don't know anyone who does, but last time I tried the win32 cross compiler on linux, it ran about 10x faster than natively on windows on the same hardware. That was years ago though and I'm sure cygwin has drastically improved it's performance on windows in the mean time. Anyway, this sort of stuff can really up the complexity of the build system so I'd *really* like to avoid it if at all possible. That said, the autoconf configure script works by generating little programs and executing them (or at least testing if they can be compiled, linked, etc.) So it might be possible to work something into the configure script if it was simple enough ... not that I'm excited about the idea ... Is there anyway you can restructure things to avoid needing to do this? Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
