Re: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS looks like no effect on make

2007-11-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Oleg, * Oleg V. Zhylin wrote on Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:52:52AM CET: This time I'm running Automake 1.10. According to 6.3.4 Handling Local Macros in the manual ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 line should instruct both autoreconf and make to use these flags when autoconf is executed.

Re: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS looks like no effect on make

2007-11-27 Thread Oleg V. Zhylin
Just to be sure: you put the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS line in the toplevel Makefile.am file? The file is named exactly Makefile.am? There is no whitespace before the word `ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS'? Yes to all three. One further detail. As I debugged my package automake eventually captured ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:30:31AM +, Olly Betts wrote: Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs. However, these recipes require a lot of boilerplate code which annoyingly obscures [...] It's just struck me that automake is good at inserting lots of boilerplate code into

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Olly Betts
On 2007-11-27, Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:30:31AM +, Olly Betts wrote: data.c data.h::: data.foo foo data.foo But this looks like too much magic for a feature which is not used that much. My experience is that multi-output rules

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Bruce Korb
On Nov 27, 2007 9:54 AM, Olly Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, none of the real examples I have to hand fit into the mould of a collection of implicit rules with a common basename. Cheers, Olly Just to toss a couple more pennies into the pot, I am currently working on a poject

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Olly Betts wrote: My experience is that multi-output rules often aren't protected at all, and parallel make is unreliable on such projects. This is becoming much more of an issue, as multicore boxes are now mainstream. What relationship is there between parallel make and

Re: Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

2007-11-27 Thread Olly Betts
On 2007-11-27, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Olly Betts wrote: My experience is that multi-output rules often aren't protected at all, and parallel make is unreliable on such projects. This is becoming much more of an issue, as multicore boxes are now