Hi all, I have been using automake for a while now, however I recently came across an issue i haven't had to worry about before, which is having duplicate named source files under different directory structures producing conflicting object files.
Say i have a source directory structure like: <srcdir>/blah/Makefile.am (the makefile we are talking about) <srcdir>/common/map.cpp <srcdir>/linux/map.cpp and the above automake file with a section like: XXX_SOURCES= \ $(abs_top_srcdir)/common/map.cpp \ $(abs_top_srcdir)/linux/map.cpp where abs_top_srcdir is a variable i define in my configure script that is an absolute path to the top_srcdir (to avoid the ..'s) and is used in the sources instead of $(top_srcdir) What i really want is to build all the object files like: <build-dir>/blah/XXX/common/map.o <build-dir>/blah/XXX/linux/map.o but can also handle a less desirable option: <build-dir>/blah/XXX/($abs_top_srcdir)/common/map.o <build-dir>/blah/XXX/($abs_top_srcdir)/linux/map.o Is there any way I can do this with automake? Or is there any plan to support something like this? I am using automake version: 1.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------- I have described below what options Ihave tried: The error i get running automake using the first configuration is similar to: blah/Makefile.am: object `XXX-map.$(OBJEXT)' created by `$(top_srcdir)/common/map.cpp' and `$(top_srcdir)/linux/map.cpp' I then looked at the subdir-objects automake option to solve this problem. Using this fails with an error like (this error message comes from the real code not the above simple example, but gives an idea of the error): Makefile:823: /home/bcosta/build/gary/../../dev/SV/Gary/X3f_951_client_restructure/src/packet/.deps/audio_server-serverstat.Po: No such file or directory There is an existing thread about this problem which it seems nothing was done to address it: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-autom...@gnu.org/msg00779.html So I tried replacing the variable with: XXX_SOURCES= \ ../common/map.cpp \ ../linux/map.cpp This will kind of build, though the location it is putting the object files in is really bad and conflicts with those from other makefiles. I.e. they are going into: <build-dir>/common/map.o <build-dir>/linux/map.o which is no good for my project. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brendon.
