On 07/11/16 02:35, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Pádraig, > >>> lib/gnulib.mk:32: error: required file '$gl_source_base/alloca.c' not found >>> Makefile.am:226: 'lib/local.mk' included from here >>> lib/local.mk:1: 'lib/gnulib.mk' included from here >>> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 >>> ./bootstrap: autoreconf failed > ... >> The issue is in m4/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack.m4 >> There are single quotes around $1 that need to be changed to double quotes. > > This would not help, because at the point when > gl_LIBOBJS=`echo "$gl_LIBOBJS" | sed -e 's, , $gl_source_base/,g'` > is being run, $gl_source_base has the value 'gnulib-tests', not 'lib'. > >> More problematically AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR is used there which >> looks like it needs to be initialized before gl_source_base is set. > > Yes, the statement > ac_config_libobj_dir=$gl_source_base > is also out of order. > >> I'll need to do a lot more digging to figure all that out. > > It's probably not worth to try to fix the non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack > module in this direction. Please feel free to revert my change to > modules/non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack, and add a comment why 'lib' has > to be hardcoded in this place.
Done. thanks
