Olly Betts wrote:
> The automake manual (at least for automake 1.10) has a
section on this
> problem. It's probably a good idea to pick something
from there to
> avoid an approach with hidden pitfalls.
>
> The simplest solution there avoids the
"stamp" file but doesn't scale
> well to multiple outputs, which is a problem for C#,
but probably OK for
> most languages which generate 2 or 3 outputs.
>
> There's a cleaner variant of your idea too, which only
needs to check
> one file. If you want to take a look and don't have it
to hand, it's on
> ixion:
>
> info /u1/olly/automake-1.10/doc/automake.info Multiple
Outputs
>
> But these are maintainer rules and there's an easy
workaround (just
> delete the stamp file by hand too) so it can wait until
after 1.0 if
> you're busy.
For the record, I've just fixed this issue, using the
solution suggested
in the automake manual. I've used the method which copes
with very many
outputs even for the situations which only have 2 or 3
outputs, so that
we're using the same method everywhere and simply need to
place the same
piece of code in each makefile rule which needs it (with
appropriately
set filenames, of course).
It'd be nice if automake supported this itself; maybe a
later version
will do.
--
Richard
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