Re: Please, please fix the subdir-objects out-of-tree bug

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 01.12.2015 um 13:44 schrieb R. Diez:
> Hi Automake devs:
>
> I need to build some files outside of the build repository, and I 
> cannot use option 'subdir-objects' because of an Automake bug, so I 
> constantly get many warnings like this with newer Automake versions:
>
>   warning: source file '$(BLAH_BLAH_DIR)/src/blah_blah.cpp' is in a 
> subdirectory,
>
> The (apparent) problem with 'subdir-objects' is that ./configure 
> creates a directory literally named $(whater_variable_you_used), 
> instead of substituting the variable with its value.
>
> None of the work-arounds is satisfactory. For instance, I am 
> developing, so I cannot disable dependency tracking.
>
> Here is an example project of mine with this problem:
>
>   https://github.com/rdiez/JtagDue
>
> I am compiling vendor-specific external sources like ARM's CMSIS and 
> Atmel Software Framework into an .a library and then linking it to 
> many projects, and I have different sandboxes that build out-of-tree 
> with different configurations. Other work-arounds like copying the 
> sources to each project's directory tree would drastically slow down 
> compilation times.
>
> This Automake issue has been known for years. Could someone please, 
> please fix this bug?


IIRC the bug is fixed, but there has not been a new release since then. 
And developer resources are so scarce that nobody is up to making a release.

Best regards