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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: configure errors with srcdir != builddir and empty "intermediate dirs"
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-05-11 15:51:03
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On Friday 11 May 2001 17:37, Malte Starostik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just encountered configure erroring out if there are dirs that contain 
> subdirs with Makefile.{am,in}s, but the dir has no Makefile* with srcdir != 
> builddir.
> 
> Example:
> kdeaddons/doc/kicker-applets/ktimemon/
> doc/ and kicker-applets/ do not contain Makefile.am's, thus no Makefile.in's 
> are generated and configure can't write a Makefile into 
> $builddir/doc/kicker-applets/ktimemon/ since its parent have not been 
> created. Same thing happened somewhere in kdenonbeta and/or kde-i18n (can't 
> remember exaclty). Manually creating those parent dirs helped. A quick fix 
> would be Makefile.am's in those parent dirs that only contain a SUBDIRS = ... 
> statement, but maybe it could be fixed in configure somewhere?

AFAIK intermediate dirs are supposed to have a Makefile.am each.
It doesn't make much sense otherwise, anyway.
kdeaddons needs some more structure yes :)

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