Harlan Stenn writes: > I've got an "old style" build tree and I'm trying to convert it to use > subdir-oobjects. > > I've got a good number of subdirs in this project, and some of these > subdirs contain source files but no Makefile.am (or derivatitives). > > The problem I'm seeing (with at least automake-1.12.1 and automake-1.15) > is that the .deps directories are not being created along the subdir > path, so the build is failing. > > So if A/Makefile.am contains: > > foo_SRCS = ... $(srcdir)/../foo/bar.c
and that should have been foo_SOURCES . > I eventually see: > > Makefile:XXX: ../../mydir/../foo/.deps/bar.Po: No such file or dierctory > > I get this behavior with both FreeBSD's make and with gmake. I am using > VPATH. in that automake sets up VPATH for me - I don't manually set it. > What am I missing? > > If the answer is "Wait until autoconf-2.70 and automake-2.0" that's an > OK answer. I'm just trying to prepare for this a bit earlier. > > -- > Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> > http://networktimefoundation.org - be a member! >