creating the $(SUBDIRS) at runtime?

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi folks,

I would like to create the directories for some
$SUBDIRS as needed at runtime, e.g.

        :
        SUBDIRS = mydir

        mydir/Makefile: FORCE
                ${INSTALL} -d mydir
                generate $@
        :

Unfortunately Automake complains about the missing
directories in the source tree.

Of course the workaround is easy, but I wonder why
Automake tries to verify whether a source directory
exists?

(Part of the problem is that CVS doesn't allow to
rename files or directories, so I would like to avoid
checking in empty directories.)


Many thanx

Harri