Re: FYI: warn if `obj' occurs in SUBDIRS.

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

adl> The library that was built lied in an `obj/' subdirectory, and
adl> it turns out that BSD make has a special hard-coded rule for
adl> this directory.  If an `obj/' directory exists, BSD make enter
adl> it before reading the Makefile; thus it processes obj/Makefile
adl> instead of ./Makefile!  It can take some time before you realize
adl> what happens.

Wow.  I guess there can't be a way to disable this from ./Makefile
(since make would then have to read it first).  I'd never heard of
this.  I think this is worth a portability note in the autoconf manual
as well.

Tom