Re: The %.o: %.cc rule

[Clark Rawlins]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 05:15:22PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Clark" == Clark Rawlins <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Clark> Is there any kind of consensus on what would be the 'correct'
> Clark> way to do this in automake?  Is there a consensus that automake
> Clark> should continue to support these old compilers?
> 
> Yes, automake should support these old compilers.  That is, until we
> find that they don't exist any more.  That day could even be now.
> 
> Anyway, automake already supports this via the `compile' script.  Here
> is a comment from the script:
> 
>     # Wrapper for compilers which do not understand `-c -o'.

Does this mean that automake users can use -c and -o together and this
`compile' script will `do the right thing'?

> 
> This is the current cvs automake.
> 
> Clark> I am attempting to modify automake to support paths and want
> Clark> the output files to end up in the same directory structure as
> Clark> the original files.
> 
> What do you mean by this?
> My guess is that the current automake already does what you want.

I want to be able to do something like:

test_SOURCES = d1/s1.cc d2/s2.cc

Clark

> 
> Tom

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