Need help with cleaning up a working GNU Autotools setup 5061

Interesting. But that simply lists the load of rubbish that people occasionally write - I don't agree with the conclusion that because VPATH is got wrong by most people first off that one should give up and not use it. It works perfectly for what it is designed for - namely you cd to the intended object directory and do "make foo.o". End.

As to the difficulty of getting linking right using VPATH - it's not designed for that. Still, I don't mind doing it with VPATH also.

So I disagree with him on that page.

Here he seens to suggest copying the source over into the build dir. I don't like that at all, since VPATH works fine! But I did list it as one of the ways that our OP could go about things! As I said then, it's an orthogonal question to using autotools what method you decide to use for the make - once you have decided, you can get autotools to HELP you build the makefiles, but it can't subsbreastute for you.

My point was that it's a makefile.am about the same way "nothing" is a makefile. I believe you understand what I was saying!

Peter