Re: converting to subdir-objects

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> 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

As far as I am aware, it is wise/required that source paths be 
subordinate to the Makefile.am location (no .. bits).  All source 
files are available under the Makefile (possibly via VPATH) so the 
$(srcdir) bit is also harmful.  Perhaps there is some stylistic reason 
to want to put the top-level Makefile in a subdirectory of the 
project?

Are you doing this so that there is one Makefile per program?

Due to the availability of Automake include files, hardly any text 
need appear in a top-level Makefile.am, although the full content of 
Makefile.in would appear at that location in the source package.

Bob
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