Allow source in subdirectories

Question

Allow source in subdirectories

tkralphs opened this issue 5 years ago · 4 comments

Is there a reason not to allow source to be in subdirectories? I'm in the process of converting SYMPHONY to the new build system. Currently, SYMPHONY has a multi-level structure in its src directory and this is not supported in master. Changing the call to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-define no-dist -Wall subdir-objects])

fixes the issue. Is there any downside to this?

Answer 1 · 2020-03-14T19:07:40.000Z

I usually put the subdir-objects into the Makefile.am where necessary:

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign subdir-objects

Answer 2 · 2020-03-14T19:52:29.000Z

Ah, OK, I missed that you can do that. Thanks!

Answer 3 · 2020-03-15T11:48:40.000Z

I'll still give it a try to add this to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.

Answer 4 · 2020-03-19T21:20:13.000Z

@tkralphs You can (and probably should) leave out the setting of AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am. The current AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign seems to have overwritten AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE setting from coin.m4. At least the -Wall didn't seem to have been applied.