Re: dist-bzip2 with subdirs

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 03/04/06, Paulo J. Matos <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/04/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Paulo,
> >
> > * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:29:19PM CEST:
> > > I'm having a problem with dist-bzip2 since on my makefile I have :
> > > VPATH %.cc ./x ./xx ./xxx ...
> > >
> > > bin_PROGRAMS = foo
> > > foo_SOURCES = foo.cc bar.cc ...
> > >
> > > When dist-bzip2 tries to copy some files not direcly in ./src it fails
> > > miserably. Is there any solution for this? Or usually when using
> > > multiple dirs, one should not use VPATH but instead souces should be
> > > foo_SOURCES = ./x/foo.cc ./xx/bar.cc ...
> >
> > Yes, write this:
> >   foo_SOURCES = x/foo.cc xx/bar.cc ..
> >
>
> OK.
>
> > It's very wise to not set VPATH yourself when using Automake.  Do you do
> > that only so you can save writing a few bytes of path names, or is there
> > some deeper trickery going on?  Automake otherwise makes use of VPATH
> > itself to allow you to have build trees separate from source trees.
> >
>
> Ah, nice, didn't know that. I just used it because I have a lot of
> files, and I mean a lot with super-deep paths... mainly because I
> included in my project files from other software projects of my
> research group which were already organized this way but I think I'll
> just simplify this stuff.
>

Another thing... are header files usually included in _SOURCES or is
there any other field for them?

Thanks,

Paulo Matos

> Thanks,
>
> Paulo Matos
>
> > Cheers,
> > Ralf
> >
>
>
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