My mistake, merely being able to add extra dependencies could be done by
target: $(SOME_VAR)
and use AC_SUBST to set SOME_VAR (thanks, Jim). But this does nothing to
solve the problem when target is a name that automake already has rules
for and thus does not allow overring.
Setting severity to wi
Back on https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13104 ...
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:04:15 +0100
From: Stefano Lattarini
...
Ideally we could improve the makefile parser to check whether a
target has an associated recipe, and only in that case make it
override a built
> Hello,
Hi,
> The usual workaround to add prerequisites to an automake-generated
> rule is to use a one-off make variable for the target name. For
> example,
>
> doc_bison_dvi = doc/bison.dvi
> $(doc_bison_dvi): $(FIGS_DOT:.dot=.eps)
>
> and so on. Automake does a simple string comparison
Hi Theophile, nick.
On 12/06/2012 11:16 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2012-12-06 16:41 +0100, Theophile Ranquet wrote:
>> I am seeking advice for a workaround of what seems like a limitation
>> in Automake (1.12.2).
>>
>> We have recently added figures to Bison's documentation. These fig
Hello,
On 2012-12-06 16:41 +0100, Theophile Ranquet wrote:
> I am seeking advice for a workaround of what seems like a limitation
> in Automake (1.12.2).
>
> We have recently added figures to Bison's documentation. These figures
> are included by our texinfo source by using "@image", which requir
Hi,
I am seeking advice for a workaround of what seems like a limitation
in Automake (1.12.2).
We have recently added figures to Bison's documentation. These figures
are included by our texinfo source by using "@image", which requires
different image formats depending on what we want to produce.
