On Monday 2023-07-17 06:55, John Darrington wrote: >Why not just write it as: > >a_SOURCES = aprog/main.c \ > aprog/foo.c \ > aprog/bar.c \ > aprog/baz.c ...
You're missing the point. If you have a hundred, two hundred source files, all the aprog/ prefixes (and it's rarely *that* short) add up to the filesize of Makefile.am.