Re: How to specify a directory for INSTALL, NEWS & Co

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Hilco,

* Hilco Wijbenga wrote on Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:01:06AM CEST:
> project/INSTALL
[...]
> project/COPYING
> project/build/Makefile.am
> project/build/configure.ac
> project/src/main.c++
> 
> Automake complains about missing these files because it's looking in
> the current directory (build) instead of the root directory (..). I
> went through the Autoconf macros but didn't find anything obviously
> applicable.
> 
> How do I tell Automake to look in '..' instead of '.'?

You can't, really.  Automake assumes the location of the top
configure.ac file coincides with the toplevel directory of the package;
`foreign' is the way around that.

Cheers,
Ralf