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How to use multi-level SUBDIRS in Makefile.am:s?

A common issue automake complains about is caused by following lines in various Makefile.am:s

Makefile.am:
SUBDIRS = deployment transport/http/util transport/http/common engine transport

The intent of this line is to force the order of building so that transport/http/util and transport/http/common are build before the engine directory, and building rest of the transport after engine is build.

This line causes the following error when running automake under MinGW:

Makefile.am:1: directory should not contain `/'
A: 

This is caused by an old version of automake (at least 1.7 and older). Newer versions accept multi-level paths as values for SUBDIRS.

Jukka Dahlbom  2010-04-17 16:22:02

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