> From: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:33:09 -0500 > > Automake 1.14 is warning us about upcoming 2.0 making subdir-objects > mandatory. > This is a feature that has been around for many years but never used in X. > This feature is not compatible with the way our makefiles cherry-pick source > files from other directories anywhere in the source tree. > > The subdir-objects feature assumes the path for the source code specified > in _SOURCES represents a subdirectory relative to makefile. Dependency > tracking > uses the path verbatim to create a directory such as > '$(top_srcdir)/hw/xfree86' > without resolving the variable. The object code will not be generated where > the makefile is, but in the same where the source was specified. > > The proposed solution is to create a link in git for the source files that > are shared (fb, mi, xfree86) by multiple directories (kdrive, vfb, ...)
Ugh, please no. Can't we just stick to automake 1.x? >From a practical point of view, some of us import Xorg into other version control systems that don't properly support symlinks. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
