Re: Automake: Compiling sources in other directories

[Dave Brolley]

Tom Tromey wrote:

> > > > > > "Dave" == Dave Brolley <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Dave> To work around the problem I have to change the generated dependency to:
>
> Dave>    h1.lo: ../host/h1.cpp
> Dave>        $(LTCXXCOMPILE) -c -o $@ $<
>
> Dave> Is this a make bug, or should automake be generating a rule for
> Dave> making hl.lo? My version of make is 3.79.1.
>
> It is an automake bug; make is doing the right thing.
> I'm checking in a test case.

OK, thanks Tom.

FWIW, I'm working around this for now using VPATH:

  VPATH=$(srcdir):../host

and specifying h1.cpp without a path in in libfred_la_SOURCES. Seems to 
work OK. Is this supported?

Dave