Common Makefile.am sections?

[Owen Taylor]

On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 18:23 -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?

Well, something similar is done for the gtk-doc documentation tool.

There is a script 'gtkdocize' that copies gtk-doc.make from 
$(datadir)/gtk-doc/ into the toplevel of the project, then that
is included into particular Makefile.am's.

This is done because gtk-doc has a set of pretty complex make rules
(150 lines or so) that were very hard to maintain when they were
cut-and-pasted into place.

Regards,
						Owen

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