On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:47, Joerg Faschingbauer wrote: > >>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>> "Marty" == Marty Leisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > adl> [...] > > Marty> common/Makefile.am:1: directory should not contain `/' > > Marty> Just wondering for some thoughts on this matter...is > Marty> there any reason to insist on single level source > Marty> directories in recursive make... > > adl> I can't think of any. > > About two years ago I asked the same question. Lars J. Aas replied > that "make dist" does not support this. IIRC, the only reason why make dist has problems with it, is it using "mkdir" somewhere. I guess, replacing it with mkinstalldirs, mkdir_p or what ever the current status prefers would help.
> The documentation (release > 1.7.9) still says that SUBDIRS can only contain direct descendants of > the current directory (section "Recursing subdirectories"). AFAICT, current automake doesn't support '/' in subdirs. > I maintain a build tool (1) that determines the build order of > subdirectories automatically, in arbitary depths. The SUBDIRS variable > in the generated toplevel Makefile.am is full of slashes then, but I > never noticed any automake failure. Only the warning, which is why the > Confix documentation recommends using a flat hierarchy. > > Any opinions? I think, you'll see this issue if you skip a Makefile in your hierarchy, for example if trying to use source tree similar to this: configure.ac Makefile.am subdir1/subdir2/configure.ac subdir2/subdir2/Makefile.am With Makefile.am containing SUBDIRS = subdir1/subdir2 and configure.ac containing AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(subdir1/subdir2) [I haven't checked the latest automake/autoconf but I recall having encountered this issue with autoconf-2.57/automake-1.7.2] Ralf
