Re: Managing Emacs org-mode projects with automake - how to make this easier?

[Gavin Smith]

> The not so nice part is, though, that the Makefile.am looks quite messy.
> Very messy in fact:
>
>
>     $ cat Makefile.am
>
>     vortrag = vortrag.pdf
>     vortrag_DATA = vortrag.org data.txt dist-tarball.png
>     vortragdir = .
>
>     EXTRA_DIST = ${vortrag_DATA} ${vortrag}
>     MOSTLYCLEANFILES = \\\#* *~ *.bak *.vrb *.bbl *.blg *_flymake.* #
> kill editor backups and latex stuff
>     CLEANFILES = ${vortrag}
>     DISTCLEANFILES = ${CLEANFILES} \\\#* *~ *.bak *.vrb *.bbl *.blg
> *_flymake.* auto/*el
>
>     all : ${vortrag}
>
>     ${vortrag} : ${vortrag_DATA}
>         if test "$<" != "$(notdir $<)"; then cp -u "$<" "$(notdir $<)"; fi
>         echo yes | @emacs@ --batch --load "~/.emacs" --visit "$(notdir $<)"
> --funcall org-beamer-export-to-pdf
>         if test "$<" != "$(notdir $<)"; then rm -f "$(notdir $<)"; rm -f
> $(basename $(notdir $<)).tex $(basename $(notdir $<)).tex~
> auto/$(basename $(notdir $<)).el; else rm -f $(basename $<).tex
> $(basename $<).tex~ auto/$(basename $<).el; fi
>
>
>
> Most of this is required to make distcheck happy.
>
> Is there a way to make this cleaner?
>
> Best wishes,
> Arne
>
> PS: I documented my usage of autotools on
> http://draketo.de/light/english/free-software/makefile-to-autotools
> --
>From your link:
>I use pyxplot for generating some plots. Pyxplot does not have a way (I know 
>of) to search for datafiles in a different folder. I have to copy the files to 
>the build dir and kill them after the build. But only if I use a separate 
>build dir.

If I understand rightly, you are having a problem with VPATH builds?
Is there no way to get your tools (emacs and pyxplot) to read from
files in the source directory but output in the current directory?