[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Shell Script to produce Makefile.am for tables directory

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:21:24 -0500

Christian,

Thanks. I'm more aware of the dangers of this approach now, But I'm also 
concerned about typos and omissions that could occur from trying to 
maintain that huge Makefile.am manually. I'll try out your new script - 
carefully.

John

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:52:34AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi John
> 
> On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:40 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > This would automate inclusion of new tables.
> 
> You know I am against this feature, but seeing you doing it anyway I sat
> down and extended the stuff that I had sent before some so that it
> actually can generate the whole Makefile.am now.
> 
> So if you like give the script maketablelist a try (I just checked it
> into svn). It generates a Makefile.am.new which can be compared to
> Makefile.am and moved over it. This should obsolete stuff like
> Makefile.list and Makefile.skel. Maybe it should be renamed to
> generateMakefile.am or something.
> 
> I'd be careful though. We already had an incident (when adding the
> Norwegian tables) and when I tested it I also included some spurious
> files in the Makefile.am that I didn't want to.
> 
> Thanks
> Christian
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