Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-21 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] adl> 2006-04-20 Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> adl> * m4/amversion.in (_AM_AUTOCONF_VERSION): New macro. adl> (AM_SET_CURRENT_AUTOMAKE_VERSION): Call it. adl> * aclocal.in (trace_used_macros): Trace _AM_AUTOCONF_

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-21 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I proposed: > > > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated > > > ./configure. [plus] > > $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(top_srcdir)/configure On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:51:26PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Also, you are munging time stamps behind

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:52:31PM CEST: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. > > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) > > > > I don't think it wor

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. > Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) > > I don't think it works : > > - if automake is called by a rebuild rule

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Stepan> I would suffice if autoconf, when called in 3) updated ./configure. Stepan> (It presents only minimum of extra work.) I don't think it works : - if automake is called by a rebuild rule to rebuild one Makefile.in with

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Alexandre, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > adl> Here is my attempt at checking Autoconf version in aclocal.m4. ... > Here is a second attempt [...] ... >* It does not pollute acloc

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-20 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adl> Here is my attempt at checking Autoconf version in aclocal.m4. adl> It would be nice if someone could suggest a better way to retrieve adl> the Autoconf version: Here is a second attempt that I think is superior to the previous

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm 2006-04-14 09:25:00.0 +0200 > +++ lib/Automake/FileUtils.pm 2006-04-14 09:45:44.0 +0200 > @@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ >$optional = 1 > if $file_name =~ s/\?$//; > > + return "-" > +if $file_name eq "-";

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Or can we tweak Autoconf to make its version more accessible? what would be wrong with parsing `autoconf --version' or `autom4te --version'? (At least as a fallback, when autom4te is not able to handle stdin.) echo

Re: Broken makefile given Autoconf version mismatch

2006-04-13 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
| The patch to add AC_PREREQ to AM_PATH_LISPDIR is necessary not to | prevent the failures Noah described, but simply to prevent users from | trying to use the macro with an Autoconf version that is too old and | does not cause `${datarootdir}' to be defined. I was merely explaining why aclocal co