On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Bollinger, John C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So color me embarrassed: the ‘subdir-objects’ Automake option appears to do > what I want, more or less(*). Inasmuch as it is particularly relevant > there, perhaps a mention of it could be added to section 7.3 of the manual? > > (*) “More or less” because with Automake 1.11 it yielded Makefiles > containing many lines of the form > include src/$(DEPDIR)/foo.Po > These files did not (yet) exist, so make completely rejected the file. > Automake stopped emitting these when I removed the ‘subdir-objects’ option, > and started again when I put it back. In the end I added the > ‘no-dependencies’ option as well; this suppressed the include lines, but of > course also disabled dependency tracking.
I think config.status creates empty .Po files, which get replaced with real dependency information as a side-effect of compilation. What happens if you run `./config.status depfiles' and then `make'? -- Jack
