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Re: SUBDIRs and slashes
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: SUBDIRs and slashes |
Date: |
09 Dec 2003 10:36:50 -0700 |
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>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> "Marty" == Marty Leisner <address@hidden> writes:
adl> [...]
Marty> common/Makefile.am:1: directory should not contain `/'
Marty> Just wondering for some thoughts on this matter...is
Marty> there any reason to insist on single level source
Marty> directories in recursive make...
adl> I can't think of any.
Back in the day there were two problems.
First, automake's "dist" rule was not robust if there was a gap in
the hierarchy.
Second, autoconf wouldn't properly create intermediate directories in
this same situation.
I don't know whether either of these is still true today. The first
one in particular has probably changed, I think I'm remembering our
first "dist" implementation :-)
Tom