Hello, On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "SK" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SK> But if we release versions with LIBOBJDIR, we will be bounded to > SK> support it in future releases, even in case that it will become > SK> redundant. > > Let's worry when we get there.
OK, I'll raise this issue when we get close to Autoconf 2.60. > The need is to split required sources/objects into groups, for > instance to create different libraries. Using multiple > directories is just one way to do it. Another need is to split the sources to multiple directories, to make the tree more maintainable. > The plan discussed when LIBOBJDIR was introduced was to have > multiple LIBOBJS-like variables (and hence multiple LIBOBJDIR > variables), I remember the discussion, but I always thought the tone was: ``well, this would require multiple LIBOBJDIR-like variables, so think twice''. I was scared by the idea of multitude of magic variables; thank you for explaining me your view. Alexandre, you showed me that my proposal needs more thought, thanks. Let's put it off for now, Stepan,