Re: if vs. ifdef in Makefile.am

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Friday 2023-03-03 13:14, ljh wrote:
>Thanks for the hint. I did not know this before.
>
>Found it here, autoconf manual 16.3:
>> cd to the directory where you want the object files and executables to 
>> go and run the configure script. configure automatically checks for 
>> the source code in the directory that configure is in and in ... 
>> This is known as a VPATH build.
>
>$ bash ../src/autogen.sh 
>autoreconf: 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' is required
>$
>
>But `autoreconf -i` only runs in directory where configure.ac lives. It
>generates a lot temporary files in the source directory.

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