Re: Generating Makefile.in in File-Empty Subdir

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:27, B.J. Black wrote:
> Hi, all!
> 
> I have a directory structure that is similar to the following:
> 
> foo/
> foo/bar/
> foo/bar/foobar/
> foo/bar/barfoo/
> 
> The only file in foo/bar is Makefile.am, as it has no actual source in
> it (just subdirs).  The foo/Makefile.am has in it:
> 
>      ...
>      SUBDIRS=bar
>      ...
> 
> And foo/bar/Makefile.am has only:
> 
>      SUBDIRS=foobar barfoo
> 
> and nothing else.  The issue is that, though foo/bar/foobar/Makefile.in
> and foo/bar/barfoo/Makefile.in are generated, nothing is generated for
> foo/bar/Makefile.in, which kills builds (especially "make dist"), due to
> there being no Makefile in foo/bar.
> 
> I've Googled the heck out of this, and looked in the archives and
> couldn't find anything.  Any ideas?
Sounds as if you might have missed to list some Makefiles in your
configure.ac's AC_CONFIG_FILES

Ralf