Additional languages in GNUstep Make

[David Chisnall]

Hi,

I'm just about to commit static compilation support to LanguageKit and  
edlc, and I'd like to be able to support this cleanly from GNUstep Make.

To compile a Smalltalk file to LLVM bitcode, you need to run:

edlc -c -f {smalltalk file name}

This will give you a .bc file.  All of these should then be linked  
together, along with the MsgSendSmallInt.bc file, with llvm-ld, which  
will run link-time optimisations and then emit object code, which  
should be linked with the program.  Optionally, llvm-ld should be used  
twice, once to combine all of the bitcode files, then opt should run  
some additional optimisations, and then llvm-ld should be run again. I  
will play a bit with the optimiser and see if I can find a sensible  
set of optimisations to run each time.

My question is, what is the best way of adding support for this to  
GNUstep Make?  I would like to be able to have a line in my  
GNUmakefiles like:

PROJECT_SMALLTALK_FILES = foo.st bar.st

Since there are some situations where JIT compilation is preferable,  
it would also be nice if this could either copy the files to the  
resources folder in the bundle, or statically compile and link them,  
depending on the value of some other macro, although that's not  
essential.

David