Re: make dist and sources in subdirs

[Robert Collins]

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From: "Akim Demaille" <address@hidden>
To: "Alexandre Oliva" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Robert Collins" <address@hidden>;
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Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: make dist and sources in subdirs


> >>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Alexandre> On Apr 3, 2001, "Robert Collins"
> Alexandre> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Is it expected behaviour for a.o,b.o ans c.o from the above example
> >> to be created in ., or in foo/ ?
>
> Alexandre> Yep
>
> (Alexandre means `yes, in .'.

I figured that :]

> >> It would be good if they could be created in foo/ rather than the
> >> current directory (in case of name collisions.
>
> Alexandre> There's an automake option that tells it to keep object
> Alexandre> files in subdirs.  I don't recall the exact spelling.
>
> Couldn't find it in the doc (probably still too experimental?), but a
> RTFC shows it's subdir-objects.  See the subobj*.test files.
>

Thank you.

Rob