Hi,
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:18:09PM +0100, James Bonfield wrote:
> eg_SOURCES = a/a.c b/b.c c/c.c
>
> Previously this was all home-cooked Makefiles without autoconf, automake, etc.
> I've managed to get this working in autoconf by using VPATH. However I create
> shared libraries, and so libtool and automake are really useful for me.
>
> However if the above snippet is in Makefile.am automake tells me:
>
> automake: Makefile.am: not supported: source file `a/a.c' is in subdirectory
>
> The obvious solution is:
> eg_SOURCES = a.c b.c c.c
> VPATH += @srcdir@/a:@srcdir@/b:@srcdir@/c
Instead of relying on VPATHs, why not just use libtool convenience
libraries? Libtool convenience library support is integrated quite
well into Automake.
HTH,
-Ossama
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