Re: ../configure question

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Troy Cauble <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 01:19:09 -0400

> In the middle of this large autoconf based project
> there's a third party module that does not use autoconf....
> 
> Is there a standard way to work around this other than
> adding Makefile.am's to the third party module?
> 
> I imagine that the workaround would involve copying the
> entire source module to the $(top_builddir) tree...

I would say that every project is different, but you've hit upon two
of the common workarounds.  Other possibilities include creating a
link farm (a tree of symlinks and/or hard links), or possibly passing
the right arguments to the submake.