Re: AC_LIBSOURCES considered harmful

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The problem you describe was more of an automake limitation, and
>> it has been resolved by automake's addition of AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR.
>
> Interesting. But AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is documented just between
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, which makes me believe that
> only a single call to AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR in one configure.ac is
> supported. In this case, it wouldn't help gnulib-tool. Can you confirm
> the contrary?

I haven't used it, but the example in the test case
does work that way.

> Also, do you have an idea about the release date of automake-1.10?

No.
I can't even predict a release date for coreutils :)