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commit 9e9aa529b19e7e1360970374e298ede5e50c39f5
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Sep 6 14:05:09 2008 -0600

    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 <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    6 ++++++
 THANKS            |    1 +
 doc/autoconf.texi |    7 +++++--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1ad89f7..35ec73c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2008-09-06  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
+       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 afdd697..f1e2b04 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ Martin Koeppe               address@hidden
 Martin Mokrejs              address@hidden
 Martin Wilck                address@hidden
 Martyn Johnson              address@hidden
+Matej Tyc                   address@hidden
 Matteo Frigo                ?
 Matthew D. Langston         address@hidden
 Matthew Mueller             address@hidden
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 97f09d7..f3f4b7d 100644
--- 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
address@hidden  But if you are using Autoconf in isolation, then
+supporting @code{VPATH} requires the following in your
address@hidden:
 
 @example
 srcdir = @@srcdir@@


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