Re: Problem with VPATH builds and SCRIPTS primary

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 21:12 +0200, Raphaël Halimi wrote:
> Well, since the documentation only mentioned "the build system" was
> supposed to create the subdirectories, I assumed it was make's job.
> Seems I guessed wrong.

That statement is ambiguous, I agree, but I suspect the author meant
the "build system" to refer to the makefiles generated by automake, and
not the make utility itself.

GNU make itself will never try to guess which directories may need to
be created and automatically create them for you.  The recipes in the
makefiles must be written to create any directories that they need,
that may not exist already.

Cheers!