bug#61867: dirstamp pattern rule kills buildability with FreeBSD make, NetBSD make, AIX make

2023-02-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > I reverted (attempted to, anyway) that change. Thank you. > since evidently @D is not supported on BSD-derived makes, > whatever POSIX says. Nitpicking: I think the problem is not with $(@D), which is inside the rule. The error message Cannot find a rule to create target

bug#61867: dirstamp pattern rule kills buildability with FreeBSD make, NetBSD make, AIX make

2023-02-28 Thread Karl Berry
I guess that the commit "dirstamp: switch to a pattern rule" is the culprit. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=commitdiff;h=55f8fcfd08cbf15d65d61dd2db934b6c3171cf06 Thanks Bruno. I reverted (attempted to, anyway) that change. Hope it flies. Closing this, in hopes ... -

bug#61828: aclocal warns when specifying the m4 macro dirs through AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS

2023-02-28 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Bruno, I don't understand what's happening in the 'aclocal' program. Me either. Sorry to be such a failure as a maintainer, but it's not like I've ever looked at that program, or could do so any better than you. Any chance you could check into it and maybe find a patch for the undesired

bug#61867: dirstamp pattern rule kills buildability with FreeBSD make, NetBSD make, AIX make

2023-02-28 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, FreeBSD 13.1 'make', NetBSD 9.0 'make', AIX 7.1 and 7.2 'make' are perfectly fine for building many GNU packages, even as VPATH builds. Jim Meyering has now put out a tarball for testing, that uses bleeding-edge Automake: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/platform-testers/2023-02/msg00012.ht