From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-02-08T14:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: mkmf, extconf.rb

Hi,

At Fri, 8 Feb 2002 03:06:16 +0900,
Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> As far as I can see from my reading of `man make` appending the rules
> at the end of the makefile would be fine, so people could call this from
> extconf.rb and have it work:
>     require mkmf
>     create_makefile('thingy')
>     add_rules <<EORULES
>     tarfile: this.c that.c thingy.h extconf.rb
>     	 tar cvf thingy.tar this.c that.c thingy.h extconf.rb
> 
>     EORULES

Finally, is it enough?

    open("Makefile","a") << <<EORULES
    ...
    EORULES

> I don't think I have access to enough versions of make to really test
> this.  (I'm thinking of "Are normal 'target: dependency; action' rules
> allowed after suffix rules?".)

It works so, AFAIK.

-- 
Nobu Nakada