Re: how to handle new subdirectories?

[Steffen Dettmer]

Hi,

thanks again for your quick and helpful reply.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Steffen Dettmer wrote on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:25:50PM CET:
>> For new subdirectories with new Makefile.am autoconf/automake
>> fails because Makefile.in seems not to be created automatically,
>
> I'm not sure I understand.  The normal way to add a new directory is to
> add
>  AC_CONFIG_FILES([dir/Makefile])

(or add to AC_OUTPUT, seems with AC_OUTPUT, AC_CONFIG_FILES won't work)

> to configure.ac, write dir/Makefile.am, and add something like
>  SUBDIRS += dir
>
> to a Makefile.am above dir (or sub/../dir if more than one level above).
> Then, unless you have maintainer-mode turned off, just run 'make'.[1]

ohh, indeed. It seems I tested wrongly and that I had a
different problem. Seems I missed an important warning in the
heaps of warning I got :(

WARNING: `aclocal-1.11' is missing on your system....

which seems to be caused because I tried to use automake without
`make install' it, which seems not to be allowed.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

It just works correctly. Great!
So if we would make the upgrade we could drop workarounds, good :)



>> 2) new autoconf directories:
>
> I'd like to understand your use case in (1) first.

I retested this as well but still don't see it working. So
probably I made another mistake :)

I have a new dir with dir/configure.in and added it to
./configure.in's AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([dir]). In Makefile.am I have
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make then runs aclocal, automake, autoconf and ./config.status
--recheck, but only in `.' not in `dir'.

Then it recurses SUBDIRS, finally dir and aborts:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.

in `dir' there is no configure and no Makefile.

oki,

Steffen