[PATCH] Enable subdir-objects

[Gaetan Nadon]

On 14-02-13 03:51 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 08:33:21PM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>> On 14-02-12 05:50 PM, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>>> If the automake defined variables $(top_srcdir) does not work, then
>>> something is seriously broken and the root cause should be found, not
>>> worked around :-)
>> A lot has been written about this already. I was able to reproduce the
>> problem with 1.11. Various workarounds have been proposed, and it is
>> still not clear if it is a bug in Automake or something else we miss.
>>
>> I would just stay away from it for now.
> Alright, I'll drop that patch and live with the autoreconf warnings
> then.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to investigate so thoroughly.
>
> Thierry
I am reading the Automake mailing lists. It looks like it is not a good
idea of using top_srcdir to pick source code here and there in different
subdirs. What they are trying to do is to rectify the situation in 2.0
by making subdir-objects mandatory which is what should have been the
(only) behaviour all along. Bottom line is that we have to do something
nicer before 2.0 hit the streets.

Thanks for your patience.