Hi Gary, >>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> Hallo again, Gary> It turns out that the automake patch is not enough :-( Sorry, I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR. But you are breaking common uses of @LIBOBJS@ while bending it the way you think it should work. Or maybe I am just misreading your patches. At least I would like to see a test case proving the converse. Right now many people use @LIBOBJS@ in lib/Makefile.in, and expect it to be a list of filenames without leading directories. AFAICT this has always been like so. Now people are also using AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR because some autoconf checks need to use these source files to work (the Autoconf manual explains that). This recently introduced macro is completely independent of how @LIBOBJS@ is defined. If the contents of @LIBOBJS@ substituted in lib/Makefile are prefixed with lib/ then the build rules in lib/Makefile cannot work. I do agree that the current @LIBOBJS@ interface lacks some features. For instance the ability to refer to objects in other directories (this is more than what you were after: some people want to use @LIBOBJS@ in src/Makefile.in while the object files are in lib/, so the object files in @LIBOBJS@ should look like ../lib/foobar.$(OBJEXT)). Or the possibility to the several @[EMAIL PROTECTED] variables and not only one (some examples in the links below). Maybe doing these require a new interface, and maybe the actual @LIBOBJS@ can be a special case of that new interface (I know I'm vague :)) Please see http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=automake&pr=401 and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-12/msg00058.html and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2005-01/msg00113.html and the end of http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#LIBOBJS Gary> --- lib/autoconf/general.m4.orig 2003-10-27 11:10:56.000000000 +0000 Gary> +++ lib/autoconf/general.m4 2005-04-18 18:00:20.000000000 +0100 Gary> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Gary> # This file is part of Autoconf. -*- Autoconf -*- Gary> # Parameterized macros. Gary> -# Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, Gary> +# Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, Gary> # 2002, 2003, Free Software Foundation, Inc. Oops. (And where does this trailing comma come BTW?) Gary> # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify Gary> @@ -2436,14 +2436,19 @@ Gary> # _AC_LIBOBJS_NORMALIZE Gary> # --------------------- Gary> # Clean up LIBOBJS abd LTLIBOBJS so that they work with 1. ac_objext, abd -> and -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
