Re: VPATH elimination by configure

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Akim> It seems to me that Autoconf's job is not to remove unportable
Akim> code written by the user, so it seems wrong to have it remove
Akim> VPATH definitions from Makefiles.  Historically I'm sure it was
Akim> useful, in a previous century, in a previous millennium.

It is still useful because automake unconditionally puts VPATH into
Makefile.in.  How else will we get the definition into Makefile?

Tom