Need help with cleaning up a working GNU Autotools setup 5063

(I presume he's in the source). Well yes, that's what we-i told him to do.

This is only a precompiler flag for where to look up includes. It doesn't do anything about source, much less source in subdirs. This won't do anything that I can see. One would generally already have had

CPPFLAGS += -I $(TOPDIR)-include

(I'll write TOPDIR instead of RSD).

in ones Makefile (or Makefile.am-in, for all the differece it makes).

This is again exactly what he has been told. Except

1. It's likely that the autoconf won't have added the VPATH = $(TOPDIR)-src to the Makefile that he needs.

2. There is no absolute guarantee at this point that he has a Makefile in this position now, but it is damn likely.

It hasn't been "used as it is meant to be" in any sense beyond the ordinary use. There was no use there of "autoconf" except to build a configure file in the top level directory.

Eh? You will have exactly as many processes as you NEED, WHEN you need them. Are you under the impression that this is (a) expensive, or (b) simultaneous? And I may add (c) unneccessary? You will always have that number of makes. Try it and see. The example you have given is of compilation in ONE subdirectory. If you want to compile in 80 build dirs, you will do make in each of them.

And may I add, that in each subdir of each build dir you will do a make.

Idiot.

Plonk!

Peter