Re: Relative path in CPPFLAGS and distcheck

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Robert Lowe wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a set of common headers files in includes/ and the following
> line in configure.ac:
>
> AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS,[-I../includes])
>
> ...since all source files are in parallel directories.  This works
> fine for everything but a distcheck.  Is there a simple means of
> placing an absolute path there?  I've tried a couple of different
> methods, but no luck.

Try:

CPPFLAGS="${srcdir}/includes"
AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS)

> Also, is it perfectly legit to list these files in the top-level
> Makefile.am as EXTRA_DIST, rather than explicitly listing this
> subdirectory, adding a Makefile.am there, ... since there's
> nothing to build there?

It it works, then it must be legit, otherwise no. :-)

Bob
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