added example using generated and installed example library

[libt2n] / example-codegen / TODO

diff --git a/example-codegen/TODO b/example-codegen/TODO
index 0b0a556..39fc78d 100644 (file)
--- a/example-codegen/TODO
+++ b/example-codegen/TODO
@@ -12,13 +12,23 @@ now we use the first solution
 - would be nice to reduce amount of changed files
   (codegen output is often the same as the existing files - something similar to ccache
   for codegen - but not overwriting output files if they are the same)
-- howto include the part after "# always the same:" in all makefiles using the codegenerator
+- howto include the part after "# always the same:" in all makefiles (using the codegenerator)
   (we now use make's include)
 - lib name should be group name + suffix/prefix
-- at the moment make dist from within a clean source will not work
-  (this is related to the nodist problem / old automake version)
 - the example should not get installed (but still it should show how to build a lib that gets installed :-(
   (overwriting install: doesn't work)
+- at the moment make dist from within a clean source will not work
+  (this is related to the nodist problem / old automake version)
+  this is caused by BUILT_SOURCES not working for make dist(check?)
+  and the dependency generation
+
+  distcheck -> dist -> distdir -> DISTFILES
+
+  all -> all-redirect -> all-am -> Makefile -> BUILT_SOURCES => bene
+
+  => how to add dependency on BUILT_SOURCES for dist?
+  the real problem is that make dist should not depend on BUILT_SOURCES
+  unfortunately we can't fix this as long as we use a old automake version
 - add (standalone) example using generated client library
   (=> depends on installed example)
   example consists of: the same client.cpp but provides a configure.in and Makefile.am