Re: converting to subdir-objects

[Gavin Smith]

On 8 March 2015 at 09:46, Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

I managed to get the same error. My test case is attached (is actually
a .tar.gz file).

First I tried it with an older development version I had installed
(reporting itself as "automake 1.99a"), and it worked. Then I
downloaded and installed automake 1.15, and this happens.

After running "./configure" and "make":
Making all in A
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/g/src/test-case/A'
Makefile:342: ../foo/.deps/bar.Po: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../foo/.deps/bar.Po'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/g/src/test-case/A'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

A "$(srcdir)" directory exists under A.

test-case.-nottargz
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