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Re: VPATH elimination by configure
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: VPATH elimination by configure |
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17 Jan 2001 13:53:28 -0700 |
>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
Akim> It seems to me that Autoconf's job is not to remove unportable
Akim> code written by the user, so it seems wrong to have it remove
Akim> VPATH definitions from Makefiles. Historically I'm sure it was
Akim> useful, in a previous century, in a previous millennium.
It is still useful because automake unconditionally puts VPATH into
Makefile.in. How else will we get the definition into Makefile?
Tom