Re: Include files outside srcdir?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Johansson wrote on Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:55:21PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Peter Johansson wrote on Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:31:56PM CET:
> >>http://www.nongnu.org/autoconf-archive/ax_add_am_macro_static.html

> >Hmm, the idea of having such a is not bad, but I don't think it should
> >need to go via esyscmd.

> I'm curious about your idea on how to implement it without esyscmd.
> Could you please elaborate a bit? I suppose Allan wouldn't mind
> improving the macro if you have any suggestions.

Well, I don't know off-hand of a method without esyscmd; that in itself
is a good reason to have something built into Autoconf/Automake which
provides the functionality.  That's why I wrote

> >Maybe Automake should provide something similar.

but of course I forgot to provide the rationale for this ...

Cheers,
Ralf