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Re: top-level Makefile required?
- From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- Cc: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>, automake at gnu dot org,Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 20:02:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: top-level Makefile required?
Bug, I'd guess.
Why does automake/autoconf assume it is "in charge" of the directory
structure?
H
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> On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 09:55, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> > Is it a bug or a feature that when using automake+autoconf there Must be a
> > top-level Makefile?
> >
> > I tried to write a test case for automake (debugging the AM_CONDITIONAL
> > slowdown problem I'm seeing) and I wrote a top-level configure.ac that only
> > specified the following outputs:
> >
> > AC_CONFIG_FILE(a/Makefile)
> > AC_CONFIG_FILE(b/Makefile)
> > AC_OUTPUT
> >
> > and when I ran automake on this I never got either of those Makefile.in's
> > generated.
> >
> > What gives?
>
> Feature I guess :}. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have a
> non-existence top level Makefile, as you'd never recurse down the tree
> :}.
>
> Rob
>