Re: Autoconf and Automake macros.

[Tom Howard]

Hi Peter,

I've found a way of placing the entire contents of the macro in a m4 
file.  I'll be converting the macros to use this technique and sending 
you the resulting m4 files.

The technique I'm using involves using printf commands to place the 
automake rules into aminclude.am (which must be manually included in the 
Makefile.am).  For instance, if I want to add the following rule

foo:    bar
        echo "foo bar"

I would place

printf "foo:\tbar\n\techo \"foo bar\"\n" >> aminclude.m4

in the m4 macro (aminclude.m4 will be removed at the beginning of each 
run of configure).

As you can imagine, some of the more complicated Makefile rules will be 
quite difficult to convert to this format, with the end result being 
very hard to maintain.  Is there something in m4 that could help me with 
this process so I could do something like

I_DONT_KNOW_WHAT(MY_RULE, [
foo:    bar
        echo "foo bar"
])
printf "$MY_RULE" >> aminclude.m4

from with my m4 macros?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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