Hi, One of the reasons I tried automake 1.4b was to see if the support for compiling sources from other directories had been included. I was delighted to see that some work has been done in this area. Using my previous example, the directory structure is something like: src/main -- most of the source files are here src/host -- a few host-specific source files here In src/main, I have a Makefile.am containing something like this: lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfred.la libfred_la_SOURCES = src1.cpp src2.cpp ../host/h1.cpp automake now correctly generates: am_libfred_la_OBJECTS = src1.lo src2.lo h1.lo It also generates: hl.lo: ../host/h1.cpp This needed but the problem is that hl.lo does not seem to pick up the default rule for building specified by .cpp.lo: $(LTCXXCOMPILE) -c -o $@ $< make seems to think that the specification of a dependency for hl.lo means that there is nothing to do to make it. I verified this using 'make -d' To work around the problem I have to change the generated dependency to: h1.lo: ../host/h1.cpp $(LTCXXCOMPILE) -c -o $@ $< Is this a make bug, or should automake be generating a rule for making hl.lo? My version of make is 3.79.1. Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make