Common Makefile.am sections?

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:23:23PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Keith Packard wrote:
> >On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:10 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >>Is there a shared Makefile.am repository on the system similar to the
> >>one for configure.ac m4 shared macros?   If not, should we have a package
> >>of common rules that's in util/modular which other packages can get common
> >>rules from?
> >
> >
> >Where would these files live, and how would the Makefile.am locate them?
> 
> That's the part I wasn't sure about.   Do any other multi-module projects
> do anything like this or would we be breaking new ground?
> 
> The automake manual only mentions including files from $(srcdir) or
> $(top_srcdir), not from any standard/shared location like /usr/share/.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Include.html
> 
> >And, would these files be included in the transformation from
> >Makefile.am -> Makefile.in or Makefile.in -> Makefile? The latter means
> >that anyone building from distributed tarballs needs to have the include
> >files in a standard place, while the former is like the current
> >aclocal.m4 files where only people building from CVS would need them.
> 
> It looks like automake processes the include statements when doing
> Makefile.am -> Makefile.in.

Right, which is an intractable problem, AFAICT.