Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Akim> What is the general policy wrt `optimizations' in automake vs
> Akim> leaving some job to make?
>
> Let make do it.
>
> Seriously, I've never done any performance measurements to see how or
> if we could speed up generated Makefiles. If we did do this then I'd
> prefer to generate a fast Makefile at the expense of automake's
> runtime. make will be run many more times than automake, even for
> people modifying Makefile.am.
>
> Akim> if ($relative_dir eq '.')
> Akim> {
> Akim> push (@files, 'acconfig.h');
> Akim> }
> Akim> else
> Akim> {
> Akim> push (@files, '$(top_srcdir)/acconfig.h');
> Akim> }
>
> I don't recall this precise case, but sometimes these changes are in
> response to a particular bug report.
>
> Do you have a way you want to change this code? I don't think we can
> use VPATH here. And, unfortunately, not all make implementations like
> `./acconfig.h' (or at least, so ISTR).
I just meant to have only
push (@files, '$(top_srcdir)/acconfig.h');
in both cases. I must say that I don't understand the relationship
with VPATH here. If you tell me that we can't use ./acconfig.h, then
I don't understand how the else branch can work properly. ?
And anyway, when we use $(top_srcdir), we don't depend upon VPATH at
all, do we?
