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Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files
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rich-paul |
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Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files |
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Fri, 12 Jul 2002 02:14:12 -0400 |
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:49:01AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> Akim> BTW, Automake still does not take full advantage of the current
> Akim> config.status. It could perfectly well have foo/Makefile have a
> Akim> trampoline to top_builddir/Makefile which would recreate all the
> Akim> obsolete Makefile (and config.h etc.) at once:
>
> Tom> How do we know which ones are out of date?
>
> I was thinking about using Make. It does have a macro that returns
> the list of dependencies that are out of date, doesn't it?
>
> Tom> We could just always run `./config.status' and rebuild
> Tom> everything. We've always avoided that on performance and
> Tom> historical grounds.
>
> We can add --update to config.status, so that it only recreates its
> obsolete offsprings. Would that help Automake?
>
This solution would depend on using gnu make, but that's probably a safe
assumption for people who have the auto-tools installed:
How about a GNUmakefile that regenerates everything up to and including
Makefile, and then includes Makefile? I've had pretty good luck with a
similar approach.
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- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, (continued)
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Earnie Boyd, 2002/07/03
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Ralf Corsepius, 2002/07/03
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Tom Tromey, 2002/07/08
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Earnie Boyd, 2002/07/08
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Tom Tromey, 2002/07/08
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Andreas Schwab, 2002/07/08
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Akim Demaille, 2002/07/09
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Tom Tromey, 2002/07/09
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Akim Demaille, 2002/07/10
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Andreas Schwab, 2002/07/10
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files,
rich-paul <=
- Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Tom Tromey, 2002/07/14
Re: auto-regenerating Makefile.in and Makefile files, Schleicher Ralph (LLI), 2002/07/04