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Re: Non-recursive make & maintenance issue
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Robert Collins |
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Re: Non-recursive make & maintenance issue |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:16:12 +1100 |
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 07:08, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> By 'read only', I mean that there is an existing source tree with no
> Makefile.am's (perhaps it uses some other build system) and you are
> not allowed to (or shouldn't) update it. Since Automake supports
> subdirectories, the Makefile.am doesn't need to reside in the source
> tree and it doesn't care if files which would normally conflict with
> Automake already exist in the tree.
>
> That was the case for my latest Automake expedition.
Ah, that makes more sense. If layered carefully the two approaches could
even be compatible.
Rob
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