Re: Using GNU Make

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 06 April 2009 16:32:35 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Reuben Thomas wrote on Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 09:15:43PM CEST:
> > On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> what would be cool is if automake processed some GNU makeisms in the .am
> >> -> .in step.  personally, i use some things like $(wildcard) and
> >> $(patsubst) because i hate having to hand maintain a huge list of files
> >> -- i inevitably add more and forget to update the Makefile.am list.
>
> There is a FAQ entry about wildcards in the Automake manual.

indeed, and i know ive read that before ;).  i understand the philosophical 
arguments and basic pros/cons, but in my case, i dont really worry about any 
of the cons in the stated arguments.

> >> for projects that need to
> >> be portable, i put a hack into autogen.sh which builds the list with a
> >> shell script and then sed's it into Makefile.am while for projects that
> >> do not need to be portable, i change the automake warning level.
>
> Sounds ok to me.

it's a pita, but it works
-mike