Hello Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:17:51AM CEST: > According to Eric Blake on 7/4/2007 9:10 PM: > > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 9/17/2006 12:54 PM: > > > >> The "deleted header file" problem that was solved for object file > >> dependency generation a long time ago also affects aclocal.m4 > >> generation. > > > >> * lib/am/configure.am (%?REGEN-ACLOCAL-M4%): New target > >> $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) without any dependencies, to avoid the > >> "deleted .m4 file" problem. > >> * tests/acloca22.test: New test. > >> * tests/Makefile.am: Update. > > > > I have been using this patch locally on one machine, and have not noticed > > any ill effects. And on another machine, where I do not have the patch > > applied, I once again ran into the problem with gnulib's recent rename of > > allocsa->malloca, which had no problems on the first machine. Any chance > > you can revive and include this patch? > > Ping? I'll go ahead and apply this if no counterarguments are given > during the next week.
I can see two possible counterarguments, which is why I would be grateful if Alexandre could comment: - this way, you won't notice if you accidentally deleted the file (say, because there exists an installed version that provides the macro). The analogy wrt. installed C/C++ header files only goes so far: distributed uninstalled header files that never have an installed equivalent are very common and provoke a failure from the preprocessor. - I'm not totally sure automake won't be able to (mis)interpret the added line at some point in the future (or now, FWIW). If those issues aren't a big problem, then I'd all be for putting this into HEAD (including a NEWS entry). I mean, that's why I wrote the patch in the first place. ;-) Cheers, and thanks for keeping this alive, Ralf
