Re: Building prog first

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Russell,

* Russell Shaw wrote on Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 07:06:00AM CET:
> I want the "unimain" program built first, then use it to generate
> unidata.tab.c, which is then compiled and linked into librunicode.la
> 
>   bin_PROGRAMS = unimain
>   unimain_SOURCES = unimain.c

>   unidata.tab.c: /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
>       ./unimain $< > $@

Then you need a dependency from unidata.tab.c on unimain:

unidata.tab.c: unimain$(EXEEXT) /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
        ./unimain$(EXEEXT) $< > $@

Furthermore, please don't hard-code absolute paths like
  /usr/share/unicode/UnicodeData.txt

in your makefiles.  Make them configurable by configure.  Maybe your
users don't have root rights on their system but have the file installed
below their home somewhere?

Cheers,
Ralf