Hi autofriends!
nobase_ is really a nice feature to cope with a structured hierarchy
of files. But it does not work well with packages that avoid
recursive Makefiles. In my case for instance, my package has a
hierarchy of files in $(top_srcdir)/include, but it has no include/
Makefile.am, just $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.am, so I cannot use
nobase_include_HEADERS, I have to declare a bazillion of include
subdirs.
It would be nice if there were a means to use nobase_, but to be able
to declare the base. Maybe
include_BASE = include/
or something like that. Actually, it would leave less clutter in the
Makefile if the include_BASE was *added* where needed, rather than
removed for install. Instead of
include_HEADERS = include/foo.hh include/bar.hh
it would read
base_include_HEADERS = include/
nobase_include_HEADERS = foo.hh bar.hh
and automake would generate include_HEADERS as include/foo.hh include/
bar.hh.
