Re: automake breaks my file by putting includes after rules; how do I fix this?

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Jason Gross <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a Makefile.am which includes another file in order to get a list of
> files it should compile (I don't want to require running autoreconf and
> configure whenever you add a file that the makefile already knows how to
> compile).  But this does not work with automake's generated all and all-am
> targets, which compute their dependencies on the basis of the DATA
> variable, which is auto-defined to be nobase_hott_DATA, which depends on
> variables set in the included file.  How do I fix this?  (Should I submit a
> bug report that includes should come before the autogenerated targets?)
>
Is it possible to use the "all-local" target to compile these files,
and use another variable to list the files instead of DATA?