Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-10 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Nov 4, 2010, Benjamin Bihler benjamin.bih...@twt-gmbh.de wrote: As to the third suggestion: I use the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros in my code as a kind of version information. Therefore the compilation result differs with every compilation, although my source file does not change. Is there

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-07 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hi Ralf, excuse me, I have sent this mail twice but in the mailing list the body seems to be empty. I will try it a last time with another method... your first suggestion (with the phony target) works great. The second one does not force compilation here (but that doesn't matter anymore since

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-07 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hi Ralf, excuse me, I have sent this mail twice but in the mailing list the body seems to be empty. I will try it a last time with another method... your first suggestion (with the phony target) works great. The second one does not force compilation here (but that doesn't matter anymore since

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-05 Thread Benjamin Bihler

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-05 Thread Benjamin Bihler

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-04 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hi Ralf, your first suggestion (with the phony target) works great. The second one does not force compilation here (but that doesn't matter anymore since I use the phony target now). As to the third suggestion: I use the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros in my code as a kind of version information.

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-04 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hi Ralf, your first suggestion (with the phony target) works great. The second one does not force compilation here (but that doesn't matter anymore since I use the phony target now). As to the third suggestion: I use the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros in my code as a kind of version information.

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-04 Thread Valentin David
You probably want to have one object that has symbols for the date and the time, and this object to be depending on other objects. I am not an expert of Automake. But my solution seems to work. And this is: noinst_LTLIBRARIES=libfoo.la lib_LTLIBRARIES=liball.la libfoo_la_SOURCES=foo.c bar.c

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-04 Thread Dave Hart
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 13:46 UTC, Valentin David valentin.da...@gmail.com wrote: You probably want to have one object that has symbols for the date and the time, and this object to be depending on other objects. The NTP reference implementation does something along these lines. Every time any

Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-03 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hello, almost ten years ago there was a question in this mailing list how to force a source file to be compiled always. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2002-02/msg00099.html Unfortunately the solutions mentioned there seem not to work with me. My Makefile.am looks like this:

Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-03 Thread Benjamin Bihler
Hello, almost ten years ago there was a question in this mailing list how to force a source file to be compiled always. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2002-02/msg00099.html Unfortunately the solutions mentioned there seem not to work with me. My Makefile.am looks like this:

Re: Force a file to be compiled always

2010-11-03 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Benjamin, * Benjamin Bihler wrote on Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:00:35AM CET: almost ten years ago there was a question in this mailing list how to force a source file to be compiled always. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2002-02/msg00099.html Unfortunately the solutions