Re: Patch: make dist in subdirs before handling the current directory

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tromey" <address@hidden>
To: "Robert Collins" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Patch: make dist in subdirs before handling the current
directory


> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <address@hidden>
writes:
>
> Robert>     * distdir.am: Recurse into subdirs before handling files
> Robert> in the current directory.
>
> Robert> This patch reverses the order of subdir processing with
> Robert> current directory files for the make dist target.
>
> I don't think this is the right thing to do.  Reversing the order
> solves the problem in one particular case, but it might introduce new
> problems we don't know about.  That becomes more true if/when we have
> the dist target depend on `all'.
>
> Instead I think the right thing to do is for automake to notice when
> it is dealing with a dist-able object in a subdir and then at dist
> time make the subdir and fill it with those files.  This will let
> things work even when the subdir doesn't have a Makefile of its own.
> We already have most of the code in place to do this; it shouldn't be
> very hard to finish.
>
> Tom
>

Excellent. I agree that thats the right way to do it - I simply needed
an interim fix so I could actually run make dist :]

Rob