Hello, * Peter Johansson wrote on Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:48:44PM CEST: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >I have not verified if referencing a file outside of the source > >tree really works properly. > > > My experience is that inclusion of an external file will be ignored > by Automake, in other words, the include statement ends up in the > Makefile. It might still work locally, but quite an ugly > Makefile(.in) to distribute.
In the Makefile.am, include $(srcdir)/fragment.am or include $(top_srcdir)/fragment.am will have the same effect as if the text in the fragment.am file is copied verbatim into the Makefile.am file. IOW, automake-special variables are handled etc. In addition to this, the fragment.am file is made a prerequisite of the Makefile.in file, so that an update will trigger a rerun of automake (except in disabled maintainer-mode of course). If you have experienced different, then please report a bug to the bug-automake list with a small reproducible example. Thanks, Ralf
