Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Jack Kelly
Hello list, I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this: 8--- doc/fake437-primitive.texi: doc/$(am__dirstamp)

Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Jack, * Jack Kelly wrote on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:37:22PM CEST: I am writing a nonrecursive Makefile.am, and cannot find the recommended way of requiring that directories in the source tree have had their equivalents created in the build tree. This has led me to write rules like this:

Re: Nonrecursive Makefile.am: Ensuring directory creation?

2009-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: Unfortunately, Automake doesn't yet provide a good API for directory stamping yet. You can easily use your own though, that don't interfere with automake's stamps and rules: subdir/generated-file: subdir/my-dirstamp commands ...