Re: Uppercasing files

[Emiliano <emile at iris-advies dot com>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Emile" == Emiliano  <emile@iris-advies.com> writes:
> 
> Emile> I'm trying to create an automake file that has rules to
> Emile> uppercase files.  For example I have something.ext and I want
> Emile> it to create a copy SOMETHING.EXT. I tried with this:
> 
> Emile> pkgdata_DATA = SOMETHING.EXT OTHER.EXT
> Emile> CLEANFILES = $(pkgdata_DATA)
> Emile> %.EXT : %.ext
> Emile>  cp -f $< `echo $< | tr a-z A-Z`
> 
> Emile> but that doesn't work since no file SOMETHING.ext exists. How
> Emile> so I go about this?
> 
> Write explicit rules.
> 
> SOMETHING.EXT: something.ext

Yes, but I'd rather not if it can be avoided. There are quite a number
of them
and it impacts readability, plus there's more to keep consistent
manually (after
the uppercasing other ops are done on the files.

At the moment I've used a default rule, which works, but doesn't handle
dependancy:

.DEFAULT:
   cp -f `echo $(basename $@) | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`.m $(basename
$@).m
   ../mumps/mumps $(basename $@).m 2>&1

Emile