Re: Automake and Sun's make

[Martin Frydl]

> >> This is precisely why we don't support VPATH onm SunOS.  So don't
> >> use it, and let Automake to without.
> 
> s/to/do/, sorry.
> 
> Martin> I'm surely missing something here, but my patch seems to work
> Martin> fine. What are other problems which lead to not support VPATH
> Martin> on SunOS?
> 
> Actually, since your patch was wrapped by your mailer, I missed some
> bits, sorry.  But ven then, I'm not sure '' is always right, and I
> would delay such as decision to Tom.  Using "" seems certainly better
> to me.

I'm rather newcomer to automake, so my patch was intended only as
suggestion. I agree it's better to wait for someone who understands
this. I changed it to use "" and added as attachement for case you'll be
interested. But as I said, it is only suggestion.

> But isn't this completely partial?  Don't you have the problem
> elsewhere too?  That would mean a lot of work and changes on Automake,
> probably obfuscation.

No, but this may be because I build only libraries and executables, no
docs or others. Install also seems to work.

> Then again, the question is why is VPATH support triggered, since I
> thought we were neutralizing it.

I just tried to build from other directory than where are the sources.
Or this is no longer supported?