Re: Makefile question

[Nicola Pero]

On 4 Sep 2009, at 12:13, Philippe Roussel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I currently use the appended makefile to build my application.
>
> I want to add the file config.h automagically generated from
> config.h.in by a call to './configure' and I'm stuck on how to do that
> with GNUmakefile.

Add config.h to SimpleAgenda_HEADER_FILES ;-)

If you want gnustep-make to automatically detect when config.h has not  
been created yet,
you can add a rule for it in GNUmakefile.postamble:

before-all:: config.h

config.h: config.h.in configure
        ./configure



> Another question : should I add the configure script to the sources or
> just configure.ac so that svn users would have to launch autoconf ?
> gnustep-base keeps configure in svn but I don't know why.

Some (many end) users don't have autoconf installed. ;-)

So, you should include configure.ac so that developers can make  
changes to it
and regenerate configure; but you should also include configure so  
that normal
users can run configure without having to install autoconf (or worry  
about the autoconf
version) ;-)


> Bonus points for a solution coherent with 'make dist' : config.h and
> others generated files shouldn't be included.

Edit your GNUmakefile.postamble and add:

after-distclean::
        -rm config.h

Let me know if that works for you

Thanks