Re: AC_LIBOBJ with file in subdirectory does not work

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Ralf,

> Can you please tell me how to reproduce that hell in libgettextpo?

You already reproduced it pretty well.

> I tried the patch below, and so far it seems to work reasonably well.
> You lose the ability to do 'make clean' in either of
> gettext-tools/libgettextpo and gettext-tools/src without also cleaning
> the other, and some object files of the former live in the latter and
> have long names, but that's about it.  What am I missing?
> (The renaming trick is documented in the Automake manual.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
> gettext-tools/libgettextpo/ChangeLog:
> 2010-05-26  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * Makefile.am (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): Add subdir-objects.
>         (libgettextpo_la_CPPFLAGS): New variable, to force renamed objects.
> 
> diff --git a/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am 
> b/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am
> index 648f589..2ec49ac 100644
> --- a/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am
> +++ b/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
>  
>  ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in.
>  
> -AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.5 gnits no-dependencies
> +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.5 gnits no-dependencies subdir-objects
>  EXTRA_DIST =
>  BUILT_SOURCES =
>  MOSTLYCLEANFILES = core *.stackdump
> @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS = \
>    -I../src -I$(top_srcdir)/src \
>    -I../intl -I$(top_srcdir)/../gettext-runtime/intl
>  
> +
>  # libgettextpo contains the public API for PO files.
>  libgettextpo_la_SOURCES = \
>    gettext-po.c \
> 
>