Re: per target built sources patch v3

[Alex Hornby <alex at anvil dot co dot uk>]

Akim Demaille writes:
 > 
 > Hi Alex,
 > 
 > | I could split it into four or five patches (that would be
 > | incrementally applied) e.g:
 > | 
 > | 1) gcc style cpp depcomp
 > | 2) patsubst style variable substitution
 > | 3) suffix supplied dependencies
 > | 4) improved suffix rule recognition
 > | 5) per target built source hooks.
 > | 
 > | I would be willing to add tests for new features (so long as this
 > | didn't result in the patch being rejected for being big <g>)
 > 
 > Do you still consider doing this?
 > 
 > | If I was to do this, would someone with CVS access consider applying
 > | them in a timely manner? I suspect I might go mad trying to maintain
 > | five source trees for any length of time.
 > 
 > I would.  Well, we the approval of some other people, of course, but
 > we'd do that quickly.  In addition Automake is not changing fast
 > enough to become a problem :)

Akim,

I've been busy on other things for a while, but I would definitely
like to get these patches in, and I am heartened by the application of
my depcomp patch :)

I'll see if I can get the patsubst patch out next week.

Cheers,
Alex.