Re: Simple Automake question

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 07/08/03 05:51, Ole Laursen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need a bit of advice on how to define a constant in more than one
> Makefile.am. Currently, I have
>
>  pixmaps/Makefile.am:    pixmapdir = $(datadir)/$(PACKAGE)/pixmaps
>  src/Makefile.am:        pixmapdir = $(datadir)/$(PACKAGE)/pixmaps
>  Makefile.am:            pixmapdir = $(datadir)/$(PACKAGE)/pixmaps
>
> since the source needs to know where to find the pixmaps and the
> pixmaps/Makefile needs to know where to install them. Naturally, I
> would like to get rid of the first two definitions and only define the
> path in the toplevel Makefile.am.
>
> It appears to be easy. But how?
>  
If you are using a modern automake (not 1.4), you can put the following 
in your Makefile.am:
   include $(top_srcdir)/common.mk

And automake will expand that when creating the Makefile.in (so you can 
even put automake directives into the included file).

James.

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