Hello Hilco, * Hilco Wijbenga wrote on Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 09:01:06AM CEST: > project/INSTALL [...] > project/COPYING > project/build/Makefile.am > project/build/configure.ac > project/src/main.c++ > > Automake complains about missing these files because it's looking in > the current directory (build) instead of the root directory (..). I > went through the Autoconf macros but didn't find anything obviously > applicable. > > How do I tell Automake to look in '..' instead of '.'?
You can't, really. Automake assumes the location of the top configure.ac file coincides with the toplevel directory of the package; `foreign' is the way around that. Cheers, Ralf
