Re: porting with autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Steffen Dettmer wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Reuben Hawkins <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm porting a large Windows toolkit to Linux, OSX, etc.  Is there a
> > tool which will walk my directory structure outputting Makefile.am in
> > each directory where needed?
>
> I'd recommend to consider alternatives to the `one Makefile.am per
> direcory' approach in favor of fewer makefiles, maybe only one
> per component. As far as I know automake fully supports this.

Even with the non-recursive case, there can be one true "Makefile" but 
individual Makefile.am files may live in the subdirectories and be 
included into a master top-level Makefile.am.  The files in the 
subdirectories do not need to be named Makefile.am.

Bob
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