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Re: automake -a behavior
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: automake -a behavior |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:37:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
[This mail apparently did not get out of my box so I'm sending it again.
Sorry if it's a duplicate.]
>>> "Sander" == Sander Niemeijer <address@hidden> writes:
Sander> It seems that when automake is trying to find missing standard files
Sander> (such as install-sh and depcomp) by running automake -a it will also
Sander> look into parent directories ($(srcdir)/.. and $(srcdir)/../..)
Sander> whether these standard files might not already be there (the check
Sander> happens on the 'install-sh' file).
[...]
Sander> I would therefore propose to either:
Sander> - remove the searching into parent directories for standard files
Sander> (although I admit I don't know what consequences this may have)
Sander> - document this parent searching behavior in the documentation of
Sander> automake
This was done in Automake 1.7.3.
Sander> and provide an option to automake (in addition to -a
Sander> and -c) that disables the parent dir searching (which,
Sander> if used with the 'bar' package in the above example,
Sander> would copy the standard files into foo/bar/ and thus
Sander> properly include them into the 'bar' package.
You can add
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(.)
to your configure.ac to that effect.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
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