Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Peter Ekberg wrote: Hello! I have the following needs: 1. Extract some data from a list of files using script foo. 2. Process the data further using a second script bar. 3. Concatenate the processed data. 4. Run a third script foobar on the concatenation to produce a .c file. 5. Distribute

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Harlan Stenn
How about using a bootstrap script (or something that gets put into config.status) that touches your .c file? H

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Peter Ekberg wrote: .INTERMEDIATE: $(FOOBARS) splunk.foobar [...] Is there a portable solution to my needs? a distributed file cannot depend on a non-distributed one. So you have to replace the rule .foobar.c: ./foobar $ $@ by

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I expect that Automake conditionals with traditional make rules for the intermediate targets wrapped up in a conditional will do the trick. If you use Automake's maintainer-mode feature, then you can use if MAINTAINER_MODE foo.c : foo.bar dosomething endif There is also a

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:18:46AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: Remove the generation of the .c files from your make files. Put that logic in bootstrap and remove it from Makefile.am. It makes life easier. If you distribute bootstrap, any customer can run the script, if they so choose. :)

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:27:28PM +, Harlan Stenn wrote: How about using a bootstrap script (or something that gets put into config.status) that touches your .c file? it would have to touch all the intermidiate files first, and then the *.c file... Urghhh... Have a nice day,

Re: Need for a portable way to specify intermediate targets.

2006-01-04 Thread Bruce Korb
Stepan Kasal wrote: That principle could rather be achieved by omitting the *.c file from the distribution, supposing that every customer can install the tools which are required to generate it. Not every customer wants to install developer tools. In general, people who install a project