>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Harlan> So in the past we have successfully created Makefile.am's that say:
Harlan> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@:@srcdir@/other/dir
Harlan> foo_SOURCES= filefromdot filefromotherdir
Harlan> and with 1.8 I am seein more places where this no longer works.
Harlan> The documentation does not clearly state that
Harlan> augmenting VPATH is wrong.
Harlan> Is it wrong to use an "augmented" VPATH with automake?
Right now, yes. I don't know how it could have possibly worked
in the past. In fact I don't believe it ever worked, but maybe
it depends on the definition we use for `to work' :)
For instance `make dist' has always assumed that files are
either in the current directory, or in $(srcdir). Therefore it
would never distribute `filefromotherdir' [*]. I believe this
apply to all Automake versions.
Could you give a more detailed example of what worked, when, and
how? "more places" is a bit fuzzy.
[*] I think this is not accurate if you limit yourself Solaris
or Tru64 Make. But I'm assuming you don't.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz
