I have a package that does in configure.in GNOME_GEN_H_FILES=`cd $srcdir/src ; ls *.gen_h | xargs echo` AC_SUBST(GNOME_GEN_H_FILES)
and then a subdir Makefile.am has gnomemmc = wrap.cc $(GNOME_GEN_H_FILES:.gen_h=.cc) gnome--.cc libgnomemm_la_SOURCES = $(gnomemmc) [.....] And automake complains that this isn't allowed. So far it's behaving as documented. But if I change the above to gnomemm_gen_files = $(shell cd $(top_srcdir)/src; ls *.gen_h | xargs echo) gnomemmc = wrap.cc $(gnomemm_gen_files:.gen_h=.cc) gnome--.cc Automake will accept this, allthough it's in the end the same substitution, only this time not via configure. Question now is, if this is an acceptable workaround or a case that automake should detect and also flag as error. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SuSE Linux AG, Deutscherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nuremberg, Germany
