The reason for this is to fix the automatic rebuild of libvirt-common.h.in. All *.in files should be automatically rebuilt each time they're modified. It works well for makefiles and pkgconfig files, since they do have a valid dependency in the top-level Makefile. However, with libvirt-common.h.in there is no dependency in the top-level Makefile and there's no need for it either, so this rule include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h: $(top_builddir)/config.status \ $(top_srcdir)/include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h.in cd $(top_builddir) && $(SHELL) ./config.status $@ is never hit and should be moved to include/Makefile, but that's automake's job. According to GNU automake docs: "Files created by AC_CONFIG_FILES, be they Automake Makefiles or not, are all removed by ‘make distclean’. Their inputs are automatically distributed, unless they are the output of prior AC_CONFIG_FILES commands. Finally, rebuild rules are generated in the Automake Makefile existing in the subdirectory of the output file, if there is one, or in the top-level Makefile otherwise." Which means that if we want to have the rule for libvirt-common.h automatically generated by automake, the include/Makefile.am needs to be moved into libvirt/ subdirectory and $SUBDIRS in the top-level Makefile need to be adjusted as well. This patch moves Makefile.am from include/ to include/libvirt, adjusting the prefixes accordingly as well as updates the top-level Makefile $SUBDIRS to properly hint automake to generate all rules at proper places. Best way to see the changes, use -M with 'git show'. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Makefile.am | 2 +- configure.ac | 2 +- include/{ => libvirt}/Makefile.am | 12 ++++++------ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) rename include/{ => libvirt}/Makefile.am (76%) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index ffe0517..9298082 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LCOV = lcov GENHTML = genhtml -SUBDIRS = . gnulib/lib include src daemon tools docs gnulib/tests \ +SUBDIRS = . gnulib/lib include/libvirt src daemon tools docs gnulib/tests \ tests po examples ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 85fc6e1..1e83b8f 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([base64_encode_alloc],[libvirt_gl_base64_encode_alloc],[Hack AC_CONFIG_FILES([run], [chmod +x,-w run]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([\ - Makefile src/Makefile include/Makefile docs/Makefile \ + Makefile src/Makefile include/libvirt/Makefile docs/Makefile \ gnulib/lib/Makefile \ gnulib/tests/Makefile \ libvirt.pc \ diff --git a/include/Makefile.am b/include/libvirt/Makefile.am similarity index 76% rename from include/Makefile.am rename to include/libvirt/Makefile.am index dde955e..a59b8ab 100644 --- a/include/Makefile.am +++ b/include/libvirt/Makefile.am @@ -18,15 +18,15 @@ virincdir = $(includedir)/libvirt -allheaders = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/libvirt/*.h) -virinc_HEADERS = $(filter-out $(srcdir)/libvirt/libvirt-admin.h \ - $(srcdir)/libvirt/libvirt-common.h, $(allheaders)) -virinc_HEADERS += libvirt/libvirt-common.h +allheaders = $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.h) +virinc_HEADERS = $(filter-out $(srcdir)/libvirt-admin.h \ + $(srcdir)/libvirt-common.h, $(allheaders)) +virinc_HEADERS += libvirt-common.h -EXTRA_DIST = libvirt/libvirt-common.h.in +EXTRA_DIST = libvirt-common.h.in # Temporarily disabled, but we need it for building -EXTRA_DIST += libvirt/libvirt-admin.h +EXTRA_DIST += libvirt-admin.h install-exec-hook: $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(virincdir) -- 2.4.11