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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: configure errors with srcdir != builddir and empty "intermediate dirs"
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-11 17:11:06
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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?
>
This is also the only fix as otherwise the code there is useless.

Greetings, Stephan

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