[Freeciv-Dev] Re: BUILT_SOURCES (PR#501)

[gs234@xxxxxxxxx (Gaute (B) Strokkenes)]

David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 gs234@xxxxxxxxx (Gaute (B) Strokkenes) wrote:
> 
> > packets_lsend.c and packets_lsend.h in common/ should probably be
> > mentioned in BUILT_SOURCES in Makefile.am.
> 
> I don't think so, because they are not built by make, they
> are only generated manually be developers.
> 
> That is, I assume BUILT_SOURCES is so that automake can give
> them special treatment, but we don't want any such treatment 
> - automake should treat them just like "normal" sources?

Well, from my reading of the sources I thought that these files had to
be rebuilt whenever packets.c is changed.  I thought that this was
probably just an oversight.  Adding them to BUILT_SOURCES would ensure
that this happens automagically whenever packets.c is changed.

Note that putting files in BUILT_SOURCES does not mean that they
disappear from the tarball, or that everyone will have to build them
unconditionally.  GNU fileutils 4.0 contains a good example of this;
look in the lib directory and look for the file getdate.y.  If it
wasn't like this, everyone would need yacc or bison to compile
fileutils, which isn't the case.

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