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-rw-r--r--automake.txt17
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/automake.txt b/automake.txt
index b6b9184..c9834d3 100644
--- a/automake.txt
+++ b/automake.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@ recursive Makefile:
specified twice, once for each case.
2. if a prerequisite is in a directory "owned" by another Makefile,
you must filter the pathname through `am_path`:
- `$(call am_path,YOUR_PATH)`.
+ `$(call am_path,YOUR_PATH)`. Further, that path must NOT contain
+ a `..` segment; if you need to refer to a sibling directory, do it
+ relative to `$(topoutdir)` or `$(topsrcdir)`.
Telling automake about your program
-----------------------------------
@@ -93,8 +95,8 @@ are all prefixed with `am_`; this prefix may be changed by editing the
The exception to this is the `am_path` variable, which is a macro that
is used to make a list of filenames relative to the appropriate
-directory, because unlike normal GNU (Auto)Make, $(outdir) isn't
-nescessarily equal to '.'. See above.
+directory, because unlike normal GNU (Auto)Make, `$(outdir)` isn't
+nescessarily equal to `.`. See above.
There are several commands that generate files; simply record the list
of files that each command generates as the following variable
@@ -148,15 +150,6 @@ If you have a `./configure` script, don't have it modify the
`$(topoutdir)/config.mk` and have it generate that; then have it copy
(or (sym?)link?) every `$(srcdir)/Makefile` into `$(outdir)/Makefile`.
-If you're wondering, `am_path` is defined equivalently to:
-
- am_path = $(if $1,$(shell realpath -sm -- $1))`
-
-though it is implemented purely in Make, instead of calling out to
-another program. Besides that older versions of coreutils don't have
-`realpath`, calling to an external program like that can have a
-_substantial_ slowdown on the parse time.
-
----
Copyright (C) 2016 Luke Shumaker