On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Thomas Martitz <address@hidden>
wrote:
This option is intended to be used in conjunction with
subdir-objects and
Automake-time substitutions for included makefile fragments (%C%, %D%).
Enabling the option shortens the file name of object files such that
the
prefix
derived (after canonicalization) from the path is not included.
Enabling the option is basically equivalent to setting foo_SHORTNAME =
foo. However, it also works flawlessly if a Makefile fragment is
conditionally included. Note that actually setting foo_SHORTNAME
still overrides the object name, regardless of this option. This can
improve
the modularity of Automake-using projects.
Example:
without object-shortname
sub/Makefile.am:
bin_PROGRAMS += %D%/foo
%C%_foo_CFLAGS = $(AM_CFLAGS) -g
results in objects:
sub/sub_foo-foo.o
with object-shortname the object file name is:
sub/foo-foo.o
And it allows the following in $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.am (not
possible with
foo_SHORTNAME=foo)
if ENABLE_SUB
include sub/Makefile.am
endif
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the addition.
I've only spent a few minutes reading discussion about this patch and
even less looking at the actual code, but so far, I have seen no
addition to the test suite. I suggest you copy an existing test as a
starting point, add something like the above in its Makefile.am
section, and then ensure that the new artifacts appear in the
generated Makefile.in.