Re: How to handle data/script files in a VPATH build ?

[Peter Johansson]

Hello Sylvestre,

Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> In my Makefile.am, I have: 
> all-local: macros
> macros: $(top_builddir)/bin/myscript
>         $(top_builddir)/bin/myscript $(top_builddir)/dataDir/myData.sci
>
> Obviously, this works when I am building my application in the source
> tree but it fails when building as VPATH.
>   

It is not clear what you wanna accomplish and why it doesn't work as you 
desire.

> I cannot change top_builddir by top_srcdir since I need both the data
> and script to be available in the build tree.
>
>   

Are myscript and myData.sci distributed or built? Why do you need them 
in the build tree?

Cheers,
Peter

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