Thank you Bob, that suggestion worked. Also, using $(srcdir) also worked.
John ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:04 am Subject: Re: vpath builds and include paths > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > However, if I want to build in a separate build tree (relying on > > VPATH), then I try the following: > > > > mkdir /build > > cd /build > > /test/configure > > make > > > > This attempts to build in this new /build directory, but during > > compilation it cannot locate the header file, myproj.hpp, and > the rest > > of the build fails. What do I need to do in order to tell automake > > where this header is? I've already tried using the absolute path > > variables in the Makefile.am: > > > > INCLUDE = -I$(abs_top_srcdir)/project2/sublevel/inc > > Note that abs_top_srcdir calculation was broken in Autoconf 2.58. It > is fixed in 2.59. > > Rather than using INCLUDE you should use AM_CPPFLAGS. For example > > AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/project2/sublevel/inc > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen > > > >
