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Re: Suggest better support for multi-subdir libraries
- To: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
- Subject: Re: Suggest better support for multi-subdir libraries
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
- Date: 14 May 1999 04:20:22 -0300
- Cc: Patrick Tullmann <tullmann@cs.utah.edu>, "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@oranda.demon.co.uk>, Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>, libtool@gnu.org
- Cc: automake@gnu.org
- References: <19990507023724.8820.qmail@snoopy.apana.org.au>
On May 6, 1999, Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Now, there is just one more thing that I think is needed for good
> multi directory support. Looking at kaffe-1.0b4/include/distclean-hack,
[It's a distclean hook that distcleans DIST_SUBDIRS before
distcleaning SUBDIRS. I wonder whether automake really means not to
do it... Tom?
> As EXTRA_xyz_SOURCES and EXTRA_DIST is supported, I find it surprising
> that EXTRA_SUBDIRS is not supported.
There's DIST_SUBDIRS, which accomplishes the same.
> Oh well - guess I should really bring this up on the automake
> mailing list.
Done :-)
> The info page suggests that SUBDIRS can be a variable result depending
> on the configure outcome, but that means not everything will be
> distributed if SUBDIRS doesn't contain an entry for every subdirectory.
That's why DIST_SUBDIRS is for.
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