[CF-Devel] Automake patch available, please test it

[Mark Wedel]

Mark Wedel wrote:

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              - DATADIR etc. are passed to compiler as -DLIBDIR=... options
     
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                instead of autoconf.h header. This is done according to
     
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                automake documentation ("datadir","libdir","localstatedir"
     
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                should be used only in Makefile)
     
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       I personally find this new format annoying.  In addition to all the 
     
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      passed compile options, each compiled file now takes numerous lines
     
     
  It wasn't too hard to change this so that these are defined in autoconf.h.in 
like is done in the current non automake environement.

  However, even with that, the compile output is still very cluttered with the 
depfile/depmod stuff.

  Real solution may be to just include our own .c.o directive which doesn't echo 
the command it is running (put a - in front of the directive) and instead just 
does something like an echo 'compiling XYZ' before that.

  In that case, I wouldn't really care how much stuff is passed via command 
line.  But as it is now, the output is so verbose that non critical errors will 
probably not get noticed.  I'd like the output to be rather clean so that it can 
be 'human inspectible'.  I suppose make can be run with -s, presuming you are 
using gnu make.  But in that case, it doesn't tell what is going on.