make depend problem with hello_SOURCES = ${SRCDIR}/hello.c

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

Question about make depend:

If I set

        SRCDIR = ../src
        noinst_PROGRAMS = hello
        hello_SOURCES = ${SRCDIR}/hello.c

in my Makefile.am, then make complains

Makefile:242: ../src/.deps/hello.Po: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../src/.deps/hello.Po'.  Stop.

No indication about what went wrong. Even worse, config.status
has created a weird directory '$(SRCDIR)'.

Would it be possible to generate a better error message here?

Or is there some option to let make generate the *.Po files
including their subdirectories?


Many thanx

Harri