On 11/19/2012 12:51 AM, NightStrike wrote: > If you include src/more/Makefile.am into src/Makefile.am (a perfectly > valid thing to do), you will be unpleasantly surprised that > src/more/Makefile.am has to actually know where it is in the source > tree. It needs lines like this: > > prog_SOURCES += more/file3.c more/file4.c > > and **NOT** this: > > prog_SOURCES += file3.c file4.c > > > It's really annoying. It means that renaming a directory is reaaaaaaly hard.
You can reduce the pain by using variables:
more = more
prog_SOURCES += ${more}/file3.c ${more}/file4.c
so that a rename now only has to touch the 'more =' line, rather than
every use.
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