I have a system with a bunch of libraries and programs.
I want one little autoconf at the top: E.g. how to compile C. I would prefer to compose via SUBDIRS= instead of include, as it feels higher level, but not a big deal. I would prefer non recursive make for performance and parallelism, but this isn't currently crucial. I do not want each Makefile.am to list a full path from the root, but instead just a leaf path. That is, I want the Makefile.am's to look like they do when you use recursive (nested) autoconf) and recursive automake. The only way I've found to avoid the nested autoconf though, includes a nonrecursive automake, where the included automake snippets have to use paths from the root, and where $(srcdir) is always the root. i.e. here: https://github.com/jaykrell/j/blob/master/auto1/prog/automake.inc bin_PROGRAMS += todo todo_SOURCES = prog/main.cc todo_CXXFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/lib todo_LDADD = libtodo.a I would rather say: bin_PROGRAMS += todo todo_SOURCES = main.cc todo_CXXFLAGS=-I$(srcdir)/../lib todo_LDADD = ../lib/libtodo.a Ideally the list of directories is one place. Advise? Thank you, - Jay
