[lug] autoconf/automake

[D. Stimits]

Walter Pienciak wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to convert a project for autoconf/automake, primarily on
> > Linux. I'm having problems getting the setup to recognize subdirectories
> > when looking for source files. If I include a SUBDIRS line in
> > Makefile.am, it apparently ignores this, and ./configure will end up
> > saying:
> > configure: error: can not find sources in . or ..
> >
> > Can anyone here tell me how to set up subdirectories if the base of the
> > project has a subdirectory "src", and that in turn has a subdirectory
> > for a particular program (several programs in the package) in
> > subdirectory "server"? E.G., ./src/server/ has a project, ./src/client/
> > has a project. Subdirectories seem to break everything.
> 
> Here's a quote from the New Riders book "GNU Autoconf, Automake, and
> Libtool":
> 
> "You might think that Automake would use 'SUBDIRS' to see which
> Makefile.am to scan, but it actually gets this information from
> configure.in.  This means that if you have a subdirectory optionally
> built, you should still list it unconditionally in your call to
> AC_OUTPUT, and then arrange for it to be substituted (or not, as
> appropriate) at configure time."
> 
> Walter
> 

Unfortunately, I'm finding out that autoconf/automake is not a
straight-forward thing. It tempts me to go back to just writing
Makefiles by hand.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com