[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#8640) Target "*.ruleset" at data/nation/Makefile

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8640 >

make[3]: *** No rule to make target `*.ruleset', needed by 
`Makefile.am'.  Stop.


  Looking Makefile.am.sh, rule to generate Makefile.am actually have 
dependency generated as $(echo *.ruleset). I don't even understand what 
it tries to achieve. Why would Makefile.am depend on all rulesets? 
Probably Makefile.am is meant to be rebuilt when ever _list of_ rulesets 
changes, but implementation is far from that in every aspect...

  Well, this individual problem might is not worth fixing now, since it 
seems to me that whoever wrote this file, did not really understand what 
was doing and it should be rewritten completely. I'll volunteer, but 
give no estimations when I have time to actually do it. This is, of 
course, unless someone can explain why it must be the way it is. Maybe 
(minimum) implementation as Makefile.am puts too much constraints to 
what kind of 'make' programs one can use? (But I think it's quite 
unlikely that more limited 'make' can use Makefiles generated by 
automake -> autoconf anyway, not to mention compiler generated dependencies)


  - Caz