Re: [patch] Automake install-info problem in gas/

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer