Christian, I rather thought you would be the one to come through. Please do check in your patch. Thanks, John On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 05:38:51PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > Hi all > > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:40 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > This would automate inclusion of new tables. > > As I said the automake manual recommends against this practice > (http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Wildcards). I asked on > the automake list if they had any recommendations for the problem when > you have lots of data files. I got a very helpful response from Alan D. > Salewski who says that you can basically just invoke the following > one-liner to generate the list of tables: > > $ ls | grep -v Makefile | grep -v README | sort | sed -e 's/$/ \\/' -e > 's/^/\t/' > > Then replace the existing list in the Makefile.am with the result of the > one-liner. Done. > > In fact I have a patch sitting in my local copy for tables/Makefile.am > which does just that. If you like I can check it in on Monday. > > Thanks > Christian > -- > Christian Egli > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com/godtouches Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com