SUN make and gcc 3.0: committed changes to branch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 31, 2001, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com> wrote:

> The question is what to actually do.  Do we just punt and say
> "use GNU make", or do we fix this?  I think automake should
> cater to this misfeature in the automatic rule generation

automake doesn't support VPATH-based set-ups.  In fact, it doesn't
recommend it precisely because it's not portable and, when you start
using it, you get into all kind of oddities like this.

In an correct automake-based setup, each directory containing headers
would have its own Makefile.am with rules to install the headers in
it.

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