Greetings, section 14. - recreating a configuration - of autoconf's manual shows a rule on how to regenerate a Makefile, ie. Makefile: Makefile.in config.status ./config.status Makefile That works fine. However, I have a couple of Makefiles in subdirectories. So generalized rule is this: subdir=<..> Makefile : Makefile.in cd $(top_builddir) && ./config.status $(subdir)/Makefile where "subdir" is the relative path name. For instance, in "src/Makefile.in" subdir would be "src". My "problem" is that I have to set "subdir" manually for each Makefile.in - but I would prefer that autoconf (resp. config.status) computes the value for me. I'm not sure whether autoconf can already do this - I do not think so. Is this somehow possible? Thanks for some feedback, Wolfi. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf