Re: looking for a good example of non-recursive Make using project

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Peter Johansson wrote:
> Makefile.am [in topdir]. For those fragment files, it would probably be 
> confusing if paths were inserted into variables. Perhaps one could have a 
> switch to turn that feature on.

Yes, it would be good to have a syntax which tells Automake to 
perform path substitutions based on the relative path of the Makefile 
include fragment.  Otherwise Automake would operate as it does now. 
This syntax would allow subdirectories to be moved around without 
needing the modify the Makefile include fragments.  Existing recursive 
per-subdirectory Makefile.am files should be easily updateable to work 
with a non-recursive build.  In fact, it may be that the updated 
per-subdirectory Makefile.am files could still be used to support a 
recursive configuration depending on how they are used.

I believe that I proposed a syntax on this list in late 2003 or early 
2004.  Perhaps my posting can be found in a mail archive somewhere.

Bob
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