Re: [Supertuxkart-devel] images/Makefile.am

[E. A. H. M. <coz...@gm...>]

Hi,
Hi list,

> >> But I'd actually agree that the ease of maintenance is more important
> >> than non GNU features - I guess in all our environments it works.
> >
> > [...]
> There are two problems with wildcards:
>  - the don't work with non-gmake (annoys *BSD people)
>  - they make out of tree builds impossible
> >[...]
> Once upon a time I wrote a shell script which would do the job of
> generating the Makefile.ams properly. I could dig it up if needed.
>
> So everytime adds or removes a datafile the script should be run. The
> automake maintainers opinion is that this would be acceptable since you
> also have to do "svn add" or "svn rm" for each datafile anyway.

I was going to suggest to go with wildcards (we already have some
wildcards, so using more wouldn't worsen things), but if you have a
script, you could commit it to the supertuxkart/tools directory and
include directions.

-Coz