Re: Handling of Makefile variables

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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>> Correct.  To set variables globally, AC_SUBST them from configure.ac.
>> The thing I tried to achieve is to collect all the sourcefiles through
>> the SUBDIRS structure downwards and then in some subdirectory build the
>> SOURCES variable - and using AC_SUBST it complains that subst is not
>> allowed to be used in SOURCES. What's the "correct" way to do this?
> Please read the documentation.  Automake needs to know about all the
> source files in advance.  At build time, the list of build products may
> be slimmed down to only the ones needed.
How can the products be slimmed down?
I now tried including makefiles - but this doesn't lead me anywhere. Is
there any DESCEND documentation about how to work with include Makefiles?