John Darrington wrote: > I've been trying to convert a rather largish automake controlled > project from a recursive style build system, to a non-recursive one. > I was rather suprised to see that automake decides to put all the > object files in the root directory; not only ugly, but destroys the > namespaces afforded by each directory. > > Consequently, things are falling down when in the cases where there > are identically names source files in different directories. For > example, this simple Makefile.am complains about main.o being created > twice, when the two main.c files are clearly separate. > > bin_PROGRAMS = prog1/foo prog2/bar > > prog1_foo_SOURCES = prog1/main.c > > prog2_bar_SOURCES = prog2/main.c > > > Reading the manual suggests that I should be able to prefix the > SOURCES variables with nobase_ but it doesn't seem to work. > > Can anyone tell me the correct way to create a non-recursive automake > system, which might have identically named source files?
In your configure.ac, make sure AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is given the
subdir-objects option (you'll also need a recent automake):
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 subdir-objects])
HTH,
Gary.
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