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Re: include only in cvs-automake?


From: Rusty Ballinger
Subject: Re: include only in cvs-automake?
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:28:20 -0800

> Wow.  I almost sent a message to say that I had definitely used
> `include' in some old (circa-1997) projects.  But I dug out the code,
> and it seems I was relying on make's own include implementation.  I am
> still using automake-1.4 (so that I can be certain that the upcoming
> libtool releases will work correctly with it) and had never noticed
> this before...
>
> Tom, would you commit an errata to the autobook pages to describe this
> bug please?

include does work in automake 1.4:

    include $(top_srcdir)/packages/javadefs.am

However, if you go

    JAVAROOT = ../../../../..
    include $(JAVAROOT)/javadefs.am

then automake 1.4 puts that line in the Makefile rather than including the
file.  Maybe this is what per was seeing?

--Rusty



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