Re: automake autoconf problem in ld.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 06:27:15PM -0500, Sidney Manning wrote:
> 
> Recent changes have forced be to do an automake in the ld subdirectory.  I
> got a warning from automake telling me to run aclocal to create a new
> aclocal.m4 which I did and reran automake.  I then ran autoconf.  I then
> configured the whole tree with CFLAGS=-g ../src/configure
> --target=powerpc-linux.  Then I ran make and make failed with the following
> error:
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/cvs/binutils/srccvs/objg/ld'
> /bin/sh ../../src/ld/ylwrap `test -f '../../src/ld/ldgram.y' || echo
> '../../src/
> ld/'`../../src/ld/ldgram.y y.tab.c ldgram.c y.tab.h ldgram.h y.output
> ldgram.out
> put -- bison -y -d
> ../../src/ld/ylwrap: ../../src/ld/ylwrap: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [ldgram.c] Error 127
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/binutils/srccvs/objg/ld'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/binutils/srccvs/objg/ld'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cvs/binutils/srccvs/objg/ld'
> make: *** [all-ld] Error 2
> 
> What happens is that the Makefile.in in ld sets YLWRAP =
> $(top_srcdir)/ylwrap where the original Makefile.in sets it to YLWRAP =
> $(top_srcdir)/../ylwrap.
> 
> I'm using automake-1.6.3-1 and autoconf-2.53-8 on a RedHat 8.0 system.
> 
> Am I doing something out of sequence or is there a problem because I'm not
> sure how common it is to hand edit these auto generated files.  I have not
> had to yet.

Don't use those versions.  If you look on
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/ you'll find an older set of
autotools which work with binutils.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer