Hello Alexandre, On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:04:09AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "DF" == David Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DF> I've noticed that the distdir variable in generated Makefile.in's > DF> only appears in the top-level Makefile.in, however, it is not set in > DF> subdirectories' Makefile.in's. Is this intentional? > > Yes. When packages are nested the subpackage doesn't know the > distdir value, it has to be passed by the parent.
I'm afraid your answer does not answer the David's question. Let me quote the second paragraph: > DF> In one instance, I wished to manually inspect the result of one of > DF> the subdirectories' "make distdir", but had to pass in these two > variables > DF> by hand, slightly inconvenient. Is there a rationale for omitting these > DF> two variables in subdir's Makefile.in's? The suggestion is that one might occassionally need to do `make distdir' in a subdirectory of a project. (No subpackages are involved.) My answer was that the advantage of shortening each makefile by two lines is bigger than the discomfort reported, because the need for non-top `make distdir' is very rare. (But I was not sure whether this is the right answer, so I decided to wait for a better answer from someone else.) Stepan Kasal
