On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:55:19PM +0100, Joerg Faschingbauer wrote: : Being new to automake, I am missing (not badly though) one feature I : would want to use otherwise. This is, I'd occasionally want to say, : : SUBDIRS = a/b : : in the toplevel Makefile.am. : : I know, the doc says that "The directories mentioned in SUBDIRS must : be direct children of the current directory. For instance, you cannot : put `src/subdir' into SUBDIRS."
You can, but you get the warning. : Is there any way to do this anyway? I mean, creating the corresponding : build directory before running configure makes configure work where it : would otherwise bail out with an mkdir error. I do fear, however, that : other things I don't know of yet will discontinue to work if I do : that. "make dist" and friends do not support this, so you lose that feature. Lars J
