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Re: top-level Makefile required?
From: |
Robert Collins |
Subject: |
Re: top-level Makefile required? |
Date: |
03 Aug 2002 09:58:19 +1000 |
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 09:55, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Is it a bug or a feature that when using automake+autoconf there Must be a
> top-level Makefile?
>
> I tried to write a test case for automake (debugging the AM_CONDITIONAL
> slowdown problem I'm seeing) and I wrote a top-level configure.ac that only
> specified the following outputs:
>
> AC_CONFIG_FILE(a/Makefile)
> AC_CONFIG_FILE(b/Makefile)
> AC_OUTPUT
>
> and when I ran automake on this I never got either of those Makefile.in's
> generated.
>
> What gives?
Feature I guess :}. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have a
non-existence top level Makefile, as you'd never recurse down the tree
:}.
Rob