Re: creating the $(SUBDIRS) at runtime?

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

Harald Dunkel wrote:

> I would like to create the directories for some
> $SUBDIRS as needed at runtime, e.g.

erm, why?

> Unfortunately Automake complains about the missing
> directories in the source tree.

Yes, because the structure of the source tree is supposed to be pretty 
much static (in fact, your package should be able to build with the 
source tree on read-only media), so it doesn't make sense to name 
directories that aren't there.

> (Part of the problem is that CVS doesn't allow to
> rename files or directories, so I would like to avoid
> checking in empty directories.)

Just create a file ".cvssucks" in that dir, then it's no longer empty. 
:-) (or use a sane versioning system, like cogito).

   Simon

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