Re: problem with subdir-objects and not found .Plo files when migrating to 1.14

[John Calcote]

Sergey,

I'm curious as to why it's important to you that build products not land in
the source tree, especially in light of the fact that you're clearly aware
of automake's support for out-of-tree builds. Out-of-tree builds exist to
solve the very problem you're trying so hard to fix.

Be aware that you're kicking against the pricks (as the old saying goes).
Sooner or later you'll run into other issues with new versions of automake
that may not have such simple resolutions.

Regards,
John
On Sep 1, 2013 11:53 AM, "Sergey Jin' Bostandzhyan" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OK, never mind, problem solved. It seems that $(top_srcdir) simply did not
> expand anymore in _SOURCES. Keeping my structure with the build/Makefile.am
> but replacing $(top_srcdir) with '..' did the trick, it works
> like a charm now, including in and out of tree builds.
>
> No more warnings, no more not found .Po files, and I get my binaries and
> libraries nicely in the build directory without polluting the source tree.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jin
>
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 06:45:32PM +0200, Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks for your reply, some more questions though:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 03:08:37PM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > >     Is it possible to keep the logic with the in-tree build directory
> with
> > >     automake 1.14? I did try to move all the logic from
> build/Makefile.am into
> > >     the top level Makefile.am and removing build/Makefile.am
> completely, but
> > >     it does not help - .Plo files are not found.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd say it's a very bad idea to use that build/Makefile.am.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate? I'd be interested in the technical details
> on why
> > it is a bad idea?
> >
> > > Move the includes on the top-level Makefile.am, and get rid of
> $(top_srcdir) on
> > > all the _SOURCES declaration and it should work fine.
> >
> > It does compile now, and it does dump all the .o and .lo and what not
> > in the same directory as the sources - very ugly. This is exactly what I
> was
> > avoiding with the separate build directory and it worked just perfectly
> > until automake 1.14 came along.
> >
> > Is there any way to tell 1.14 to place the object files into some
> dedicated
> > directory without doing an actual "out of tree" build, or in other words,
> > can I achieve the same setup that I had on 1.14 somehow?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Jin
> >
>
>