Guido Draheim wrote: > Es schrieb Guido Draheim: > >>Es schrieb Troy Cauble:
>>> >>>In the middle of this large autoconf based project >>>there's a third party module that does not use autoconf. >>>"./configure" style builds work because make just finds >>>the stock Makefile in the source directory. "../configure" >>>style builds break because autoconf didn't create a >>>directory and Makefile in the $(top_builddir) tree. >>> >>>Is there a standard way to work around this other than >>>adding Makefile.am's to the third party module? >>> > forgot: if you assume good vpath (in a corporate > controlled environment that is a valid assumption) > then you could have the copy-makefile-to-builddir > done by autoconf itself - just rename the Makefile > to Makefile.in and include it into configure-output. > autoconf makes a copy for trying to substitute > some at-vars where there are none - which still works. That's the hint I needed. Rename Makefile to Makefile.in, add VPATH=@srcdir@, and I'm done! Thanks, -troy
