Re: linking source files from a different directory macro

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jason Roscoe wrote:
> >
> I also saw AC_CONFIG_LINKS but I wasn't sure it would be appropriate for what 
> I was trying to do.  I'll have a look at it again.  One other thing is that I 
> would like the links to be removed during a 'make clean' step, e.g..  Do you 
> know offhand if AC_CONFIG_LINKS will setup any rules to remove the links?

It seems to me that this macro is intended to assist with configuring 
the package.  It is not meant for drawing in a foreign source tree 
which Automake does not know about or does not obey VPATH rules.

It seems that the links created by AC_CONFIG_LINKS are created by 
config.status so they should be removed by 'distclean' but not 
'clean'.

Bob
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