Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:17:46PM CET: > I'm wondering if this feature could also be useful for projects that have > a maintainer's GNUMakefile, but want to perform VPATH builds. In other > words, by using this module, could we add some sort of: > > if GNU_MAKE > include $(top_srcdir)/GNUMakefile > endif > > that automatically pulls in the GNUMakefile without having to symlink it > into the VPATH build tree?
Well, with Automake's `include' it will just pull in the whole contents of GNUMakefile into Makefile.in, which I guess isn't what you want. Current Automake, however, ignores `-include'. So I guess you can use if GNU_MAKE -include ... endif However, so far the strategy has been to include `Makefile' from `GNUmakefile', not the other way round. Current Autoconf allows you to do this: AC_CONFIG_LINKS([GNUmakefile:GNUmakefile]) the only bit that's missing is that automake shouldn't remove the original file upon make distclean in a non-VPATH build. Will fix. Cheers, Ralf
