Hi Nick, * nickthefarrow wrote on Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:17:57AM CEST: > > Making all in . > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/nick/libwhite' > make[2]: *** No rule to make target `src/common/libcommon.la', needed by > `libwhite.la'. Stop. > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nick/libwhite' [...] > my top level makefile.am is > ---------------------------------- > SUBDIRS = . ./src/common/
This is the culprit. By listing '.' early in SUBDIRS you are in effect telling Automake to build things in the current Makefile first, and only then go into the src/common sub directory. Solution is to list '.' last or not at all (in which it will default to being last). BTW, please drop the leading './' from that name here, it may confuse some non-GNU make IIRC (they typically don't treat 'file' and './file' as identical). > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([src/common]) > AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/common/Makefile) FWIW, listing arguments in AC_OUTPUT is a bit old-fashioned. The new way would be: AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/common/Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT Also, there is some bug lingering here: when you list src/common in AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS, then you are effectively saying that there is another configure script in the src/common directory. If that is the case, then it should also be the case that that configure script creates the Makefile in that directory; but your AC_OUTPUT line tells the toplevel configure script to create the Makefile. If both configure scripts do this (and you can be certain that they won't produce identical results), then things will get confused pretty quickly. If you don't need another configure script in src/common, you can simply remove the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS line. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
