Subdirectory problem

[Peter Gavin]

Hi,

I decided to switch a project I'm working on to use a single top level 
Makefile, instead of using recursive make. One thing I noticed was that if you 
have this in your Makefile.am:

bin_PROGRAMS = a/a
a_a_SOURCES = a/a.c

Then a.o gets built in $(top_builddir), not $(top_builddir)/a as I would have 
expected, and as it would be using recursive make.  Is this a bug, or am I 
misunderstanding something?

Peter Gavin