[+cc bug-automake] Hi Patrice, Karl.
On 11/23/2012 03:17 AM, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 05:52:50PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: >> info do not compile on IRIX 6.5. There is an error linked with the >> call of depcomp. >> What is the dependency style determined by configure? You might grep for the line "dependency style" in config.log to find out. >> It is as if when called with depcomp the C >> preprocessor is not correctly used. >> >> Is this on the Utah machine (golan)? Is this with gcc or the system >> compiler? > > It is on the Utah machine with the system compiler, cc. It works with > gcc. > Is the failure still present if you run configure with the "--disable-dependency-tracking" option? >> If it fails with gcc, I think it's worth pursuing. If it works with gcc >> but fails with the system compiler, I think neither we nor the depcomp >> (automake) maintainers need to care, > Actually, as long as we have support in depcomp, we care that it works. Once there is consensus we should no longer care about a given depmode, we should remove it from the depcomp script altogether, rather than keeping it there half-broken. >> although I know there are still some installations left. >> Has been IRIX discontinued? I wasn't aware of that. If it has, we might indeed want to remove support from it from the depcomp script (that can be done for Automake 1.14). >> (A volunteer came forward recently to make the >> binaries for TeX Live, and I'm guessing that same person might care >> about Texinfo, aside from Nelson.) > > You mean people should test and come up with patches? > Thanks, Stefano
