Ian Beckwith wrote:
> Quite a few modules fail gnulib-tool --create-megatestdir --with-tests
> with the error:
>
> > executing automake --add-missing --copy
> > Makefile.am: C objects in subdir but `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' not in `configure.ac'
>
> Of these modules, the ones I checked had AM_PROG_CC_C_O in
> <module>/configure.ac
> but not in <module>/gltests/configure.ac.
Indeed, I reproduce with the command
./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests --dir=/tmp/testdir1 mbscasestr
but only with automake version 1.9.6. The error is gone in automake >= 1.10;
this is probably an automake bug.
Fixed as follows:
2009-10-03 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
* gnulib-tool (func_create_testdir): Conditionally emit AM_PROG_CC_C_O
invocation to tests/configure.ac.
Reported by Ian Beckwith <i...@erislabs.net>.
--- gnulib-tool.orig 2009-10-03 15:58:09.000000000 +0200
+++ gnulib-tool 2009-10-03 15:52:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -4019,6 +4019,10 @@
echo "AC_PROG_MAKE_SET"
echo "AC_PROG_RANLIB"
echo
+ if test -n "$uses_subdirs"; then
+ echo "AM_PROG_CC_C_O"
+ echo
+ fi
for module in $modules; do
func_verify_module
if test -n "$module"; then
