On Wednesday 24 April 2002 19.35, Michael Matz wrote:

> > I was trying again, but you've gone and committed my hacks along with
> > some improvements of your own.
>
> We were eager to try it with pmake ;)

BSD make is pretty close to pmake, so close the man page still refers to pmake 
tutorials for more information.

> > am_edit needs some patching as well.
>
> Yep, something I forgot.  I looked at it and most of it seems safe.  Just
> some questions: did you try srcdir!=buildir and srcdir==builddir?  The
> addition of target x for each target $(srcdir)/x has the potential to
> change something in that respect.

With the am_edit patches, and some additional targets to the toplevel 
Makefile.am's, I've been building srcdir != builddir since the first day ade 
started trying it, while he's been doing (I believe) srcdir == builddir.  

Cheers,
-- 
Lauri Watts


