Forwarding info that doesn't appear in online log. -------------------- Start of forwarded message -------------------- Delivery-date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:24:16 -0700 From: David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#306190: autoconf wrapper fails to run autoheader Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:21:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tuesday 26 Apr 2005 19:28, Ben Pfaff wrote: > David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 26 Apr 2005 16:06, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> "David Jarvie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > If you delete config.h.in, you should find that it not recreated by > >> > 'make -f Makefile.cvs' using the current version of autoconf. > >> > >> This sounds like a Makefile error. Why do you think it is a bug > >> in autoconf? Can you show me a typical session in which > >> config.h.in should be created but is not? > > > > It works correctly with autoconf-2.59-8, but not with the current version > > of autoconf. > > The version of autoconf isn't relevant for the wrapper, which is > part of the autoconf2.13 package. What versions of autoconf2.13 > work properly with package, and which do not? Does it work > properly if you uninstall autoconf2.13 entirely? I have only had this problem during the last couple of months (I don't know exactly when it started happening). I did some debugging and found that in the autoheader command in Makefile.common (which I mentioned in my original bug report), the /usr/bin/autoconf wrapper script was apparently executing the same command as it had in the previous 'make' step which executed 'autoconf'. I then tried reverting to autoconf2.59-8 and now everything works again, just like it used to. I didn't change any other packages (autoconf2.13-49 and automake1.6.3-11 were installed before and after the downgrade of autoconf2.59). So something definitely works differently between the two versions of autoconf. Try running 'make -f Makefile.cvs' with autoconf2.59-8, which generates config.h.in, and then with autoconf2.59a-3 which doesn't generate config.h.in. I've used these makefiles for a long time, and the bug has only arisen recently. -------------------- End of forwarded message -------------------- -- "Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." --Ovid (43 BC-18 AD) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
