Re: top-level Makefile required?

[Harlan Stenn]

Bug, I'd guess.

Why does automake/autoconf assume it is "in charge" of the directory
structure?

H
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> 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
>