Re: Creating subdirs of distdir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* quoting myself:
> * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:43:50PM CEST:
> > - or if the author of Makefile.am usees $(srcdir) or $(top_srcdir)
> >   (well educated maintainers don't)
> 
> This is wrong.  Well-educated maintainers do this in some situations:
> when the file in question is also listed as prerequisite somewhere (and
> even $(EXTRA_DIST) is listed as prerequisite somewhere), so that stuff
> *really* works with non-GNU make.

Clarification: prepend $(srcdir)/ if the file in question is both a
prerequisite of some rule (this is almost always true) as well as a
target of a rule; so that non-GNU make do not forget to update the
file when needed.

> In fact, typical Makefiles generated by Automake contain at least one
> such file: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in.

Cheers,
Ralf