Reference: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-05/msg00019.html>
On Wednesday 04 May 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > References: > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-05/msg00007.html> > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-04/msg00140.html> > > On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Hello Ralf. > > > > On Monday 11 April 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:13:00AM CEST: > > > > Fix hp depmode for VPATH builds with GNU make. > > > > > > > > * lib/depcomp: Be sure to remove VPATH-prefixed object from > > > > dependency output when creating stub rule. > > > > * tests/depcomp10.test: New test. > > > > * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Update. > > > > * NEWS: Update. > > > > Report by Bruno Haible. > > > > > > Of course I should be merging this test and depcomp9, and generalizing > > > for all depmodes, and tuning my test scripts to exercise both make and > > > gmake on all systems. (on my TODO list) > > > > > I hope you don't mind if I've done this for you ;-) > > > > See the attached patch. I've tested it with pcc, gcc-2.95, gcc-3.4, > > gcc-4.4 and the Sun C compiler, and with GNU, BSD (Debian ports) and > > Heirloom make. > > > Currently there is only one failure (with gcc >= 3 and NetBSD or GNU > > make and depmode=tru64, which I haven't tried to analyze yet (in any > > case, it isn't a regression, so we can tackle it in a follow-up). > > The log of this failure is attached, together with the content of the > > offending file `src/sub/.deps/subfoo.Po'. > > > OK, I've now written a workaround for the gcc+tru64 failure; you can find > it attached. But, lacking the possibility to test on a real Tru64, I > still don't know whether this failure is a spurious one (so that applying > my workaround is the way to go) or a real one (so that my workaround > would just sweep the dirt under the rug on GNU/Linux, only for the failure > to resurface later on Tru64). Has anyone the possibility to run the > `*.depmod' tests on a real Tru64 machine? Here is how it can be done: > > $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/automake.git > $ cd automake > $ git checkout testsuite-work > $ ./configure && make > $ cd tests > $ CC=/path/to/tru64/c/compiler make check TESTS="\$(depmod_tests)" \ > AM_MAKEFLAGS="TESTS='\$(depmod_tests)'" > > The test results can then be found in the `test-suite.log' file and in the > `depcomp-*.log' files. > > Regards, > Stefano > Ping on this? Regards, Stefano
