bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-01-22 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini writes: >> E.g., if I have a directory "foo" that has sources etc, and builds >> some specific targets, then I can isolate the automake stuff for foo >> by using an include file "foo/Makefile.am.inc" or something, and then >> putting an appropriate include in the top-level Makefi

bug#13520: Some documentation improvements for 'dist' targets & opts (was Re: bug#13520: incomplete type of distribution in "List of Automake options" chapter)

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/21/2013 11:11 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Hi automake developers, > > Current (2013-01-21) automake 1.13 manual > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html > list quite short distribution types in chapter 17.2 List of > Automake options. > Actually, only 'dist-xz' wasn't menti

bug#12320: closing bug 12320, "bison 2.6.2 contains stale info files"

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
close 12320 thanks Reference: The next major version of Automake will generate recipes that will build non-split info files *unconditionally* (see automake bug#13351 , in particular patch

bug#13436: 3 fails in make check

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/22/2013 11:21 AM, johannes.bie...@hzg.de wrote: > Finally I solved the problem: > > I had flex 2.5.37 installed locally (I have no admin rights) > but the command 'lex' was still linked to the old flex 2.5.31 version. > > So I was using way too old versions of flex and bison and there is >

bug#13436: 3 fails in make check

2013-01-22 Thread Johannes . Bieser
Finally I solved the problem: I had flex 2.5.37 installed locally (I have no admin rights) but the command 'lex' was still linked to the old flex 2.5.31 version. So I was using way too old versions of flex and bison and there is no bug in automake. Although it would be helpful if configure would

bug#13524: Improving user experience for non-recursive builds

2013-01-22 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2013-01-22 10:18, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [+cc bug-automake, so that we won't forget about the issue] > [future replies should drop the automake list] > > On 01/22/2013 02:22 AM, Miles Bader wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini writes: >>> The best solution is on the user-side IMHO: fix the build sy

bug#13519: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (1.13), suggest non-existing URL for in two- and three-arguments deprecation message

2013-01-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/21/2013 10:40 PM, Roumen Petrov wrote: > Hi automake developers, > > 1) defect > Bootstrap of quite recent release of one project automake 1.13 produce > following warning: > ... > #configure.ac:27: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms > are deprecated. For more info,