RE: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Bollinger, John C
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bollinger, John C wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:40PM CEST: > > It seems that normally, the generated configure script creates dummy > > *.Po files in the right places, thus masking the absence of Make > rules > > for that purpose. In my case, however, I used Make

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Bollinger, John C wrote: > That would also help in the case where one or more $(DEPDIR)s is accidentally > or cluelessly deleted -- the developer would not have to re-run configure > (not an > obvious solution) to fix the project directory. Do you have to re-run

Broken link to "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi, In the automake docs at http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Alternative the link to Peter Miller's paper "Recursive..." is broken. After a quick search I found the abstract here http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/ with a link to the paper in pdf here http://aegis.sourcef

Re: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bollinger, John C wrote on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:40PM CEST: > It seems that normally, the generated configure script creates dummy > *.Po files in the right places, thus masking the absence of Make rules > for that purpose. In my case, however, I used Make variables in > Makefile.am to abbr

RE: Feature Request: Improved cross-directory builds (intermediate files)

2009-09-15 Thread Bollinger, John C
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > (*) "More or less" because with Automake 1.11 it yielded Makefiles > containing many lines of the form > > include src/$(DEPDIR)/foo.Po > > These files did not (yet) exist, so make completely rejected the > file. > > Automake stopped emitting these when I removed