On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Peter Johansson wrote: >> >> Makefile.am [in topdir]. For those fragment files, it would probably be >> confusing if paths were inserted into variables. Perhaps one could have a >> switch to turn that feature on. > > > Yes, it would be good to have a syntax which tells Automake to perform path > substitutions based on the relative path of the Makefile include fragment. > Otherwise Automake would operate as it does now. This syntax would allow > subdirectories to be moved around without needing the modify the Makefile > include fragments. Existing recursive per-subdirectory Makefile.am files > should be easily updateable to work with a non-recursive build. In fact, it > may be that the updated per-subdirectory Makefile.am files could still be > used to support a recursive configuration depending on how they are used. > > I believe that I proposed a syntax on this list in late 2003 or early 2004. > Perhaps my posting can be found in a mail archive somewhere.
Can you add this feature to automake?
