recursive automake w/o recursive autoconf?

[Jay K]

I have a system with a bunch of libraries and programs.


I want one little autoconf at the top:
 E.g. how to compile C.

 
 I would prefer to compose via SUBDIRS= instead of include,
 as it feels higher level, but not a big deal.

 
 I would prefer non recursive make for performance and parallelism, but
 this isn't currently crucial.
 

 I do not want each Makefile.am to list a full path from the root,
 but instead just a leaf path.
 

 That is, I want the Makefile.am's to look like they do when you
 use recursive (nested) autoconf) and recursive automake.

 
 The only way I've found to avoid the nested autoconf though, includes
 a nonrecursive automake, where the included automake snippets have to
 use paths from the root, and where $(srcdir) is always the root.

i.e. here:

https://github.com/jaykrell/j/blob/master/auto1/prog/automake.inc


bin_PROGRAMS += todo
todo_SOURCES = prog/main.cc


todo_CXXFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/lib
todo_LDADD = libtodo.a


I would rather say:


bin_PROGRAMS += todo
todo_SOURCES = main.cc


todo_CXXFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/../lib
todo_LDADD = ../lib/libtodo.a


Ideally the list of directories is one place.

 
 Advise?


Thank you, 
  - Jay