Re: VPATH in automake

[Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:

Tom> I'm suprised config.status removes the line.

# Any assignment to VPATH causes Sun make to only execute
# the first set of double-colon rules, so remove it if not needed.
# If there is a colon in the path, we need to keep it.
if test "x$srcdir" = x.; then
  ``pass sed -e '/^[ 	]*VPATH[ 	]*=[^:]*$/d' over Makefiles.''
fi