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Re: 26-makesort.patch

To: Raja R Harinath <harinath at cs dot umn dot edu>
Subject: Re: 26-makesort.patch
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Date: 05 Feb 2001 13:40:16 -0700
Cc: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>, Automake <automake at gnu dot org>
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>>>>> "Hari" == Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:

Hari> That seems counter to current 'automake' behaviour.  IIRC, if
Hari> automake sees a "special" target in Makefile.am, it won't
Hari> generate code for that target.  E.g., if the Makefile.am has a
Hari> 'check:' target, the builtin test harness will not be generated.

That's right.  And this is a feature.

I'm still skeptical about merging the two readers.

One thing that would be useful would be a generic way to add
pre-/post- hooks to various targets.  I've seen several requests for a
pre-uninstall hook.

Tom

References:
- 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Akim Demaille
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Akim Demaille
- Re: 26-makesort.patch
  - From: Raja R Harinath

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