Hi Karl,
> Can you please send an example tree that shows the failure?
I modified the existing testscript slightly so I can get a view into
both configure.ac and Makefile files.
https://gist.github.com/Jens-G/dc9e3fc89d10d1dcf27f289c7e8d5fc8
The output I got from this and dist-no-built-sources.log is rather
interesting. As it looks, the test is indeed broken from the beginning.
1. Since the tests are run in the specified order, "no-built-sources"
first followed by "dist-built-sources", the section that modifies
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is run only once, in the first. Consequently, the only
change in the second round is that another AC_OUTPUT line is added at
the end - other than that configure.ac looks absolutely identical in
both cases:
AC_INIT([dist-no-built-sources], [1.0])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-built-sources])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
AC_OUTPUT <<<< this is added in round 2
2. Even if we fix the script so that it properly resets AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
in the second round, grepping the generated Makefile for "BUILT_SOURCES"
still gives the exact same output in both cases, which is also unexpected:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-built-sources])
BUILT_SOURCES = x.c
all: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
distdir: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
check: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
install: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
install-exec: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
-$(am__rm_f) $(BUILT_SOURCES)
Have fun,
JensG
