Re: distdir unset in subdir Makefiles?

2006-08-28 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
DF == David Fang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DF Hi, 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

Re: distdir unset in subdir Makefiles?

2006-08-28 Thread Stepan Kasal
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'

Re: distdir unset in subdir Makefiles?

2006-08-28 Thread David Fang
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

distdir unset in subdir Makefiles?

2006-08-24 Thread David Fang
Hi, I've noticed that the distdir variable in generated Makefile.in's only appears in the top-level Makefile.in, however, it is not set in subdirectories' Makefile.in's. Is this intentional? According to the top Makefile.in, distdir and top_distdir are passed down recursively during a