Re: Help Requests

2004-01-13 Thread J. Scott Amort
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 14:32, dc wrote: AFAIK There's a third possibility : you could setup a dist-hook target in Makefile.am which allows you to specify completely your dist rule (I had the same problem than yours and used this method). Unfortunately, it also means that you might have to

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
i see from the previous post that you use a manual VPATH methodology. there are two approaches you can try: 1/ undo the unorthodoxy (move auto* files to top-level dir) 2/ prefix relative paths (such as ../../) w/ $(srcdir) probably 1/ is the best for minimizing gray hairs long term, although it

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread J. Scott Amort
Thanks for the response! On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 08:05, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: i see from the previous post that you use a manual VPATH methodology. there are two approaches you can try: 1/ undo the unorthodoxy (move auto* files to top-level dir) 2/ prefix relative paths (such as ../../) w/

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread dc
AFAIK There's a third possibility : you could setup a dist-hook target in Makefile.am which allows you to specify completely your dist rule (I had the same problem than yours and used this method). Unfortunately, it also means that you might have to update this rule each time you change metadata

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread David Wolfe
... moving everything into the top-level dir (#1) did solve the problem. Unfortunately, I don't currently have any control over the directory structure (the motivation behind the attempt is to keep platform specific items, i.e. *nix makefiles, VC++ 6 project files, etc. in

Re: Help Requests

2003-12-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, David Wolfe wrote: AFAIK There's a third possibility : you could setup a dist-hook target in Makefile.am which allows you to specify completely your dist rule I suspect I'm too lazy for that. ;-) Seems like it would be more fun to take a stab at hacking automake to

Help Requests

2003-12-08 Thread J. Scott Amort
Hi All, I posted a request for assistance a few days ago (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2003-12/msg00042.html), and although I realize this is a rather low volume list, I was hoping someone would have responded by now. Was it an inappropriate post or question? If so, could someone point