Re: Non-recursive automake

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> when one decides to drive make in a non-recursive fashion, one has to
> write an Automake file like this:
>
> lib_LTLIBRARIES = foo/bar.la
> foo_bar_la_SOURCES = foo/one.c foo/two.c
>
> Usually I stuff that into a file called "foo/Automakefile" and "include
> foo/Automakefile" from the real Makefile.am. Despite being in a
> subdirectory, one may not omit foo/; that is ok.
>
> However, it is tiresome. Is there perhaps a way, or a planned
> development action, so that one can omit all foo/s inside
> foo/Automakefile and have automake automatically add foo/ upon seeing
> "include" (or a variant thereof) in the upper Makefile.am?

I complained about this perhaps five years ago since it is the most 
annoying issue related to non-recursive build.  There was some 
discussion on this list at that time but nothing was done to make 
things better.

It seems that a problem is that much of the Makefile.am file is simply 
copied to the output Makefile.in and so these parts would need to be 
re-written rather than copied.  The good news is that perl is good at 
re-writing text.

Bob
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