>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephane> I use automake for a project with subdirectories (here a test with a Stephane> dummy program). When I change a Makefile.am in a subdirectory, 'make' Stephane> cannot rebuild the files because it runs automake with the --gnu Stephane> option, which is fine for the topmost directory, but not for Stephane> subdirectories which do not have INSTALL, README, etc. Stephane> automake returns an error status (so make stops) but Stephane> Makefile.in is created so the next time, things are Stephane> fine. (Automake 1.9 will not create Makefile.in on error for this reason.) [...] Stephane> kiwi:Programmation/C/automake-plugins % make Stephane> make all-recursive Stephane> Making all in plugins Stephane> Making all in example Stephane> Making all in foobar Stephane> cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile depfiles Stephane> config.status: creating Makefile Stephane> config.status: executing depfiles commands If there is a config.stats in plugins/example/foobar there is also a configure and a configure.(in|ac). So foobar is the top-level directory of a subpackage, and Automake rightly requires top-level files in that directory. If you do not want these files in foobar, you have to configure that subpackage so it does not need them, using one of the syntaxes Ralf mentioned. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
