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Re: How to auto probe a directory


From: David Yu
Subject: Re: How to auto probe a directory
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:08:20 +0800

Hi Stefano:
          Thank you very much,I have realized my idea according your
suggestion, The patch will be merged by skyeye(www.skyeye.org).
i have configure.in include auto-probe.m4, I will probe all sub-directory
and fill "AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])" into auto-probe.m4 after I create a
device module with my script every time.

David Yu
Thanks

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2013/1/10 David Yu <address@hidden>

>
>
> 2013/1/9 Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>
>
>> On 01/06/2013 09:45 AM, David Yu wrote:
>> > Hi guys:
>> >           I want my project auto probe the Makefile.am entry all
>> > directories, if a directory has Makefile.am,  I will create Makefile.in
>> > with automake.
>> >
>> Your best bet is to create a bootstrap script that prepares this
>> information for autoconf; something like (untested!):
>>
>>   #!/bin/sh
>>   makefiles=`find . -name Makefile.am | sed 's/\.am/'`
>>   dirs=`echo "$makefiles" | sed 's,/Makefile$,,'
>>   for f in $makefiles; do echo "AC_CONFIG_FILES([$f])"; done >
>> config-files.m4
>>   echo SUBDIRS = > subdirs.am
>>   for d in $dirs; do test "$d" = . || echo "SUBDIRS += $d"; done >>
>> subdirs.am
>>
>> and then, in configure.ac:
>>
>>   m4_include([config-files.m4])
>>
>> and in top-level Makefile.am:
>>
>>   include $(top_srcdir)/subdirs.am
>>
>> But is this extra complication really worth?  If you don't have too many
>>
> I need to try it as your suggestion, create a bootstrap script.
>
>> Makefile.am and subdirectories, I suggest you to list them explicitly in
>> AC_CONFIG_FILES ans SUBDIRS.  That will save you lot of headaches later
>> (among them, the need to explicitly re-run the above bootstrap by hand
>> whenever you add, remove or rename a Makefile.am-holding subdirectory).
>>
> I don't want to do as that, because my project might be added new modules
> by other developers. other developers can add a new module by my script, my
> script create a directory and a Makefile.am, So I never know the
> directories' name  before the developers build them.
>
>>
>> >           After that, I will create Makefile with configure.
>> >
>> > Here is my key codes of configure.in and Makefile.am
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > #configure.in
>> > DEVICE_COMPILE="shell find ./ -mindepth 2 -name Makefile.am | sed
>> > 's/Makefile.am/ /'"
>> > AC_SUBST(DEVICE_COMPILE)
>> > # probe the device modules
>> > for DEVICE_MODULES in `find device -mindepth 2 -name Makefile.am | sed
>> > 's/Makefile.am/Makefile/'`
>> > do
>> >        echo $DEVICE_MODULES
>> >         AC_CONFIG_FILES($DEVICE_MODULES)
>> > done
>> > AC_OUTPUT
>> >
>> This has no hope to work, since the arguments of AC_CONFIG_FILES must
>> be known by autoconf and automake at m4 runtime, not at shell runtime.
>>
>> (True, you can run shell code from m4 as well -- with the 'm4_esyscmd'
>> and 'm4_esyscmd_s' autoconf-provided macros -- but doing so will
>> likely prove even more brittle than the "bootstrap script" approach
>> I suggested above).
>>
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > #Makefile.am
>> > SUBDIRS = $(@DEVICE_COMPILE@)
>> >
>> Specifying the list of SUBDIRS as configure-time @subst@ has its share
>> of issues too; see:
>> <
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Subdirectories-with-AC_005fSUBST
>> >
>>
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > 1. I can probe the Makefile.am of every directory.
>> > 2. But I can't create Makefile.in with "automake --add-missing --copy
>> > --force-missing".
>> > 3. I added "AC_CONFIG_FILES(test/Makefile)" into configure.in, It can
>> > create Makefile.in in test/.
>> > 4. I removed  "AC_CONFIG_FILES(test/Makefile)" from configure.in, I can
>> > create Makefile with Makefile.in that is created in step 3.
>> >
>> > I guess automake use "AC_CONFIG_FILES($DEVICE_MODULES)" create
>> Makefile.in,
>> > but automake can't run the shell command, So "$DEVICE_MODULES" is NULL
>> or
>> > invalid. While It can execute the shell command in the process of
>> > configure, so configure can create Makefile entry every directory that
>> has
>> > Makefile.am, But there is not Makefile.in. then  I get a error :
>> > *config.status:
>> > error: cannot find input file: `test/Makefile.in'*
>> > *
>> > *
>> > My question is  how to use shell command in the process of automake.
>> > Other method is ok too.
>> >
>> > My English is not good, I hope you can get it.
>> >
>> >
>> > David Yu
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>> HTH,
>>   Stefano
>>
> Waiting for my good news
>
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> David Yu
> Thanks
>
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