Re: AC_LIBSOURCES considered harmful

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "BH" == Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

 BH> Hi Jim,
 >> The problem you describe was more of an automake limitation, and
 >> it has been resolved by automake's addition of AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR.

 BH> Interesting. But AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is documented just between
 BH> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, which makes me believe that
 BH> only a single call to AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR in one configure.ac is
 BH> supported. 

Yes.

 BH> In this case, it wouldn't help gnulib-tool. Can you confirm
 BH> the contrary?

The aforementioned patch won't help you to split @LIBOBJS@ among
several directories, this is not supported (and some of the
changes to Autoconf and Automake it would require to make it
work have been evoked on this list).  

This patch will only help you to refer to @LIBOBJS@ from several
directories.

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

CVS Automake depends on CVS Autoconf.  (No it doesn't depend on
CVS Libtool nor CVS M4.)  So it could be released as soon as
Autoconf 2.60 is released.  One month after 2.60 would be a
safer bet.

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz