Re: Interesting automake bug

[Al Riddoch <ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:22:57PM +0200, Jan Ekholm wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Chris Purnell wrote:
> 
> >This is the implicit make rule again.  Just as before with your header
> >files.  Make has an implicit rule to make an executable out of a c++
> >source file as well as one to make a ".o" object file.
> 
> I really don't get it. If I have something like this:
> 
> ## programs
> bin_PROGRAMS    = panzers
> 
> panzers_SOURCES = blast.cpp                 \
>                   camera_manipulator.cpp    \
>                   connection.cpp          
>                   ....
> 
> Why would it determine that "connection" is an application? Each of those
> files does have a corresponding .hh file, but they're not even mentioned
> anywhere. Why should their mere existence throw automake out in the
> dark goblin woods?
> 

I am pretty sure having looked at your files that the problem was caused
by hard tabs between the .cpp file and the \ at the end of the line.
I was not able to build your code easily as I don't yet have osg
installed.

Al

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