>> This area still requires more work. I think I know another case where
>> it can fail: suppose you do `AC_OUTPUT(subdir/foo)' where there is no
>> Makefile.am in subdir? Then I think no rule to rebuild subdir/foo
>> will be generated.
Pavel> I would not call it a "failure" - if Automake doesn't control that
Pavel> directory then it shouldn't care.
We already handle this scenario for AC_CONFIG_HEADER. I'm sure it is
much more common there.
Pavel> I don't like rules that rebuild something in a directory other
Pavel> than "." and (in limited situations) $srcdir.
Why not?
Anyway I wrote a test for the weird case and checked it in.
I also checked in a fix for both the recent bugs in that area. I'm
afraid I'm not entirely sure why my fix fixes distcommon.test :-(.
Tom
