Re: multi-line AC_SUBSTs as targets in Makefile.am

[William Pursell]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> William Pursell <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I'd like to get away from AC_SUBST_FILE, but I don't see a way
> > around the manner in which automake is building the Makefile.
> > Is there a way to construct a generic target via AC_SUBST?
>
> How about using AM_CONDITIONAL instead?

How so?  What I'm hoping to do is to have a set of generic targets
so that I can have a template Makefile.am that simply includes
the line @MY_TARGETS@

I currently have it working with AC_SUBST_FILE, but I'm copying the
template target files into each of my project directory trees.
I would rather install my macros in /usr/share/aclocal, but I
notice that none of the packages I have ever seen invoke
AC_SUBST_FILE, and I suspect the reason is that there's no
good place to put the target file.