converting to subdir-objects

[Harlan Stenn]

I've got an "old style" build tree and I'm trying to convert it to use
subdir-oobjects.

I've got a good number of subdirs in this project, and some of these
subdirs contain source files but no Makefile.am (or derivatitives).

The problem I'm seeing (with at least automake-1.12.1 and automake-1.15)
is that the .deps directories are not being created along the subdir
path, so the build is failing.

So if A/Makefile.am contains:

 foo_SRCS = ... $(srcdir)/../foo/bar.c

I eventually see:

Makefile:XXX: ../../mydir/../foo/.deps/bar.Po: No such file or dierctory

I get this behavior with both FreeBSD's make and with gmake.  I am using
VPATH.

What am I missing?

If the answer is "Wait until autoconf-2.70 and automake-2.0" that's an
OK answer.  I'm just trying to prepare for this a bit earlier.

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