On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 09:55, Harlan Stenn wrote: > Is it a bug or a feature that when using automake+autoconf there Must be a > top-level Makefile? > > I tried to write a test case for automake (debugging the AM_CONDITIONAL > slowdown problem I'm seeing) and I wrote a top-level configure.ac that only > specified the following outputs: > > AC_CONFIG_FILE(a/Makefile) > AC_CONFIG_FILE(b/Makefile) > AC_OUTPUT > > and when I ran automake on this I never got either of those Makefile.in's > generated. > > What gives?
Feature I guess :}. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have a non-existence top level Makefile, as you'd never recurse down the tree :}. Rob