Re: _SOURCES files in sub-directories lead to make distdir failure

[Václav Haisman]

On 24 January 2018 at 11:38, netfab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using automake-1.15.1 to build a project using recursive makefiles.
>
> Into that project, there's a subdirectory to build a library using
> libtool-2.4.6. The source code of this library is organized into
> sub-directories, like this :
>>       mylib/makefile.am
>>       mylib/aaa.cpp
>>       mylib/aaa.h
>>       mylib/foo/bbb.cpp
>>       mylib/foo/bbb.h
>>       mylib/bar/ccc.cpp
>>       mylib/bar/ccc.h
>
>
> The makefile.am for this lib contains :
>> libmyLIB_la_SOURCES = \
>>           aaa.cpp     aaa.h \
>>       foo/bbb.cpp foo/bbb.h \
>>       bar/ccc.cpp bar/ccc.h

What if you use %D%/aaa.cpp %D%/foo/bbb.cpp etc.?

>
>
> I'm initializing automake with :
>> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])
>
>
> When building the whole project, it works fine.
> However, when running :
>> make distcheck
>
>
> Is fails like following, and I don't see how to fix this :
>> make[5]: Entering directory '/path/to/project/build/src/lib/mylib'
>> make[5]: *** No rule to make target 'foo/bbb.h ', needed by 'distdir'. Stop.
>
> Any advice ? Thanks.
>



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