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On 4 Jan 2000 17:45:00 GMT, Ken Pizzini
<ken@halcyon.com> wrote:

>On 29 Dec 1999 13:36:56 GMT, Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
>>
>>I currently have a Makefile.am consisting of the following:
>>
>>bin_PROGRAMS = qrcs
>>qrcs_SOURCES = qrcs.c qrcs.h
>>EXTRA_qrcs_SOURCES = ext2fs.c ext2fs.h
>>man_MANS = qrcs.1
>>EXTRA_DIST = $(man_MANS) qrcs.spec qrcs.lsm
>>
>>The automake manual recommends assigning source files that are only
>>conditionally part of the build process to EXTRA_qrcs_SOURCES instead
>>of qrcs_SOURCES, so that is what I have done.
>>
>>The problem comes in not knowing how to inform the build process when
>>it should build the EXTRA_qrcs_SOURCES files.
>>
>>My configure.in checks for the existence of linux/ext2_fs.h and, if it
>>is found, defines HAVE_LINUX_EXT2_FS_H. That's the easy part.
>
>The configure.in should also conditionally set a configuration
>variable, say EXT2_FS, to ext2fs.o and have your Makefile.am say:
>  qrcs_SOURCES = qrcs.c qrcs.h @EXT2_FS@

So when would you use the EXTRA_qrcs_SOURCES macro then?

The automake manual recommends the usage of EXTRA_$(package)_SOURCES
for files that are to be built conditionally. Is it just a question of
using this in the same way you describe using EXT2_FS?

Obviously, what you describe would work, but is that the way automake
intends you to use the EXTRA_$(package)_SOURCES construct, or is there
a better way?

Ian
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