Hi Jim, Thanks for the bug report.
* Jim Meyering wrote on Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:18:44PM CEST: > Some automake-generated code malfunctions when using the combination of > the subdir-objects option and non-literal _SOURCES. I actually have a patch (about half a year old, see followup to [1]) lying around that invokes `make' to build the depdirs, quite similar to how you propose; the issue turned out to be much more hackish and fragile than what you indicate, and IMHO not really applicable. The strongest argument against invoking `make' at the end of configure is one of debugging: if your makefile contains a syntax error -- and for newbies it frequently will -- then configure won't finish successfully. Note that I had in mind other cleanups of depout.m4, but any changes of that code are very very fragile. So, I guess a patch to document the existing limitation better would be happily accepted. Cheers, Ralf [1] <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches/2363>
