Re: Guidelines for generating files into the source dir

I wrote: > For a long time, using $(srcdir) in targets and prerequisites in > Makefiles have seemed a little magic to me. It breaks too often, > usually in ways like automatic dependency generation not working. Ooops, I sent this mail too early, before getting to the conclusion. Anyway, I think m

Guidelines for generating files into the source dir

For a long time, using $(srcdir) in targets and prerequisites in Makefiles have seemed a little magic to me. It breaks too often, usually in ways like automatic dependency generation not working. So I've tried to create a small toy project, and a testscript that builds the projects in various ways