On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 6:05 PM, fr33domlover <fr33domlo...@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hello automakers!
>
> I'm using autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.11.6 (Debian 7 stable). Recently I
> tried
> defining the source code folder name using a variable and strange things
> happen.
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or my mistake. Here's the revelant part
> from Makefile.am, before the change, which *does* work:
>
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = libsgp.la
>
> libsgp_la_SOURCES = \
> src/Command.cpp \
> src/CommandStack.cpp
>
> Now, the change I made is here below. The result is that .Plo files are
> created
> under $(src)/.deps instead of src/.deps, and then the code that uses them
> fails
> to find them and `make` failes.
>
AFAIK this is a known bug and/or missing functionality. There have
been some previous discussions of this, see e.g.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2014-04/msg00004.html.
