Re: guppi problem

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You can get round this problem by adding an explicit dependency for the .x
file like so:
  foo.o: foo.cc foo.x

This rule should be taken into account in addition to automake's generated
rules.

James.

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On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I don't know if you want painful details about the problem I know about,
> but basically when automake creates the .tar.gz, it's supposed to generate
> a Makefile that knows that foo.cc depends on foo.x (because foo.cc
> #includes foo.x). As I understand it, it does this by slurping the ".deps"
> files found in a maintainer build tree and hard-coding them in the
> distributed Makefile. automake does this when you pass it the
> --include-deps option. However, automake has been refusing to do this; it
> appears to simply ignore --include-deps. So the Makefile fails to generate
> the .x files when you type make.
[snip]
> 
> Havoc
>