Mention that Automake already supports VPATH.

* doc/autoconf.texi (Build Directories): Details in this section
only apply to users avoiding automake.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Matej Tyc.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1ad89f70befb526f7c89a3ab8dc07ed78d6cdd18..35ec73ce17aaaafebae0234815e1784c364c950e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2008-09-06  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
+       Mention that Automake already supports VPATH.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Build Directories): Details in this section
+       only apply to users avoiding automake.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Reported by Matej Tyc.
+
        Relax tone when warning about cross-compiler names.
        * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_TOOL_WARN): Support cross-compiles
        with poorly named tools; the issue has been reported too many

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index afdd69782a1fbd93334a7c828fd6fab7e29c39a1..f1e2b0443f0c072063235f5461655c53a66a2968 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ Martin Koeppe               mkoeppe@gmx.de
 Martin Mokrejs              mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz
 Martin Wilck                martin@tropos.de
 Martyn Johnson              Martyn.Johnson@cl.cam.ac.uk
+Matej Tyc                   matej.tyc@gmail.com
 Matteo Frigo                ?
 Matthew D. Langston         langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
 Matthew Mueller             donut@azstarnet.com

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 97f09d7907379b736238d8f2ff609959338cfa2c..f3f4b7deb5c1e4d464082014fc2588c63653cb0b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -2896,8 +2896,11 @@ recommend @acronym{GNU} @command{make} (@pxref{VPATH and Make}).  Older
 @command{make} programs do not support @code{VPATH}; when using them, the
 source code must be in the same directory as the object files.
 
-To support @code{VPATH}, each @file{Makefile.in} should contain two
-lines that look like:
+If you are using @acronym{GNU} Automake, the remaining details in this
+section are already covered for you, based on the contents of your
+@file{Makefile.am}.  But if you are using Autoconf in isolation, then
+supporting @code{VPATH} requires the following in your
+@file{Makefile.in}:
 
 @example
 srcdir = @@srcdir@@