[patch] Automake install-info problem in gas/
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Mon Nov 17 14:59:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > >From the conversion to automake 1.7, rather. This patch fixes it
> > although I'm not terribly happy overriding install or referencing
> > RECURSIVE_TARGETS. I've attached a patch, including changes to
> > generated files so that you can see what I mean.
> >
> > The gist of the problem is that AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = cygnus now overrides
> > more than it used to in texinfos.am.
> >
> > Does anyone see a better way? If not, I'll commit this.
>
> I've missed your mail and I see you've applied the patch since. This is
> obviously a bug in automake (which crept in around 1.5 and remained
> unnoticed till now) and I've sent report with proposed fixes to the
> automake maintainers. A fix for the 1.7 branch is included below. Your
> workaround seems to work, but it's ugly and leads to a failure of
> automake:
>
> Makefile.am:463: RECURSIVE_TARGETS must be set with `=' before using `+='
>
> with the exit status being set to 1.
What version of automake shows this error? I regenerated the
Makefile.in using 1.7.8 without a problem.
> I propose to revert your patch once automake is fixed and require the
> fixed version of automake for 2.15. What do you think?
OK. Please let me know when a fixed version of automake is available.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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