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+# Makefile snippet included by projects using codegen
+
+# Asumptions:
+# gnu make (functions for transforming text)
+# sed is available
+
+include_HEADERS += $(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), $(i)_client.hxx $(i).hxx)
+
+#IFILES=$(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), $(foreach j, $($(i)_GROUP), $(j)))
+
+-include $(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), group_$(i).P)
+
+group_%.P : Makefile.am
+ echo $@ : $($*_GROUP) > group_$*.P
+
+%.stamp : group_%.P $(top_builddir)/codegen/codegen
+# assuming we have some unix like shell (maybe even bash)
+ echo BUILT_SOURCES: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
+# temporarily create _common.hxx file (will be overwritten by codegen below)
+ echo '#include "codegen-stubhead.hxx"' > $*_common.hxx;
+ echo '#include "$*.hxx"' >> $*_common.hxx;
+# todo use tmp file for xml file
+ for i in $($*_GROUP); do \
+ gccxml $(DEFS) $(INCLUDES) $(AM_CPPFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(AM_CXXFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(srcdir)/$${i} -fxml=$${i%*.cpp}.xml; \
+ done; \
+ $(top_builddir)/codegen/codegen $* $($*_GROUP:.cpp=.xml) && touch $@
+
+BUILT_SOURCES = $(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), $(foreach j, _common.hxx _common.cpp _client.hxx _client.cpp _server.hxx _server.cpp, $(i)$(j)) )
+
+STAMPS=$(CMDGROUPS:=.stamp)
+$(BUILT_SOURCES) : $(STAMPS)
+
+# Install the pkg-config files:
+pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
+pkgconfig_DATA = $(CMDGROUPS:=.pc)
+
+# .pc files (one pc file for each command group)
+%.pc : $(top_srcdir)/codegen/clientlib.pc.in Makefile
+ sed \
+ -e 's,@CMDGROUP@,$*,g' \
+ -e 's,\@prefix\@,$(prefix),g' \
+ -e 's,\@exec_prefix\@,$(exec_prefix),g' \
+ -e 's,\@libdir\@,$(libdir),g' \
+ -e 's,\@includedir\@,$(includedir),g' \
+ $< >$*.pc
+
+CLEANFILES = $(BUILT_SOURCES) $(STAMPS) $(pkgconfig_DATA)
+
+# didn't work (same problem as with _LTLIBRARIES [parsing by automake],
+# this time _OBJECTS was not correct)
+# server_SOURCES = server.cpp \
+# $(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), $(foreach j, $($(i)_GROUP), $(j))) \
+# $(foreach i, $(CMDGROUPS), $(i)_server.cpp)
+
+# we have got an old automake version (1.4-p5) which doesn't support nodist_
+# => we use the dist-hook
+dist-hook:
+ rm -vf $(foreach i, $(BUILT_SOURCES), $(distdir)/$(i))