From 642097d5f3f27e02a69d2c835112e1d5b42a9895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 06:11:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Error if directory in SUBDIRS does not exist

---
 ChangeLog   | 3 +++
 NEWS        | 4 ++--
 TODO        | 1 +
 automake.in | 8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 63e9736b..db731658 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Thu Feb  8 15:30:29 1996  Tom Tromey  <tromey@creche.cygnus.com>
 
+	* automake.in (handle_subdirs): Error if directory in SUBDIRS does
+	not exist.
+
 	* automake.in (handle_configure): Handle AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax.
 
 	From Jim Meyering:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 578a8876..32ab8f3a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 New in 0.30:
-* configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA
-* 
+* Bug fixes
+* configure.in scanner knows about AC_PATH_XTRA, AC_OUTPUT ":" syntax
 
 New in 0.29:
 * Many bug fixes
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f97b4765..9ec5be85 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ these files can't be de-ansified.  Not a problem?
 
 consider automatically adding -I$(srcdir) to INCLUDES.
 ditto path to config.h
+Noah Friedman says that -I. should come before -I$(srcdir)
 
 In general most .am files should be merged into automake.  For
 instance all the "clean" targets could be merged by keeping lists of
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index d682a887..568d5475 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -1057,6 +1057,14 @@ sub handle_subdirs
 
     return if ! defined $contents{'SUBDIRS'};
 
+    # Make sure each directory mentioned in SUBDIRS actually exists.
+    local ($dir);
+    foreach $dir (split (/\s+/, $contents{'SUBDIRS'}))
+    {
+	&am_error ("required directory $relative_dir/$dir does not exist")
+	    if ! -d $relative_dir . '/' . $dir;
+    }
+
     $output_rules .= &file_contents ('subdirs');
 
     # Push a bunch of phony targets.
-- 
2.43.5