Re: Portable prefix pattern rules

[Brian]

I hate to say it, but it is more than ugly. As a maintainer, when forced 
with the choice of leaving it as it is, which were it portable would be an 
elegant solution, or replacing it with hundreds of rules that I will have to 
maintain, I will leave it as it is.

If the autotools were to recognize these pattern rules, scan the source and 
automatically generate portable rules for me, I would be a very happy 
customer indeed :)

Brian

On 05 Sep 2005 15:02:28 -0600, Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> Brian> The following doesn't seem to work:
> Brian> SUFFIXES = .moc.cpp
> 
> I have never tried it but it is somewhat hard to imagine some versions
> of make accepting a suffix with two '.'s in it.
> 
> Brian> The only other alternative I see is to enumerate a rule
> Brian> containing the actual file names for every single .h to
> Brian> .moc.cpp conversion, of which there are hundreds.
> 
> Yeah, this is ugly but it works.
> 
> 
> IMO, and this is most likely a controversial opinion, it would be
> reasonable for automake to have an option allowing it to generate (and
> recognize in Makefile.am <http://Makefile.am>) code specific to GNU make.
> 
> Tom
>