On Thursday 06 October 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > The automake manual says: > > > > AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE > > For each AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE([file]), automake will ensure that file > > exists in the aux directory, and will complain otherwise. It will also > > automatically distribute the file. > > > > But the last sentence is incorrect (see attached test case). > > > Apparently, the bug seems to be present only when the directory of the > auxiliary files itself contains a Makefile.am (in particular, when it > is `.'). I've committed the attached patch (to maint) to expose the bug. > I'm working on a fix (that also tackles bug#9546), but that is still > causing few unresolved issues with threaded automake, and will introduce > some (very minor) backward-incomatibilities, so I plan to finally commit > the fix to master only. > FYI, this bug is being tackled by the patch series "Reorganize automake internals for distribution tarball creation":
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2011-10/msg00017.html> Regards, Stefano
