Re: _SOURCES variable, files that are not translation units

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Mike Mattie wrote:

> automake mailing list,
>
> The _SOURCES variable makes a poor assumption, that the .c files
> listed are translation units. It is permissable though uncommon to
> create .c files that are included into a translation unit to break up
> a source file for organizational purposes. Automake's assumption about
> the .c  extension being a translation unit has forced me to place
> these files in _DEPENDANCIES
> which breaks the tags target and creation of a dist file (another
> issue). Is there something I missed in the docs or would a patch be
> required to correct this ?

A work-around is that you can rename your included .c files to use the 
extension .h. :-)

Bob
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