[Inkscape-devel] Bizarro Makefile_insert usage

What is the purpose of using Makefile_insert to pretend that everything is in the src directory instead of using the SUBDIRS directive?

I'm intending to change the Automake build system to link the executables from single object files instead of static libraries so that we may finally put files in the proper directories (e.g. remove widgets/ and dialogs/ and move those to ui/widget and ui/dialog/, as well as join helper/, util/ and svg/), and I would like to know whether I should also sanitize general Makefile usage while I'm at it.

Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński