Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Oct-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| ons, 28 10 2009 kl. 14:37 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
| > On 28-Oct-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > 
| > | ons, 28 10 2009 kl. 12:12 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
| > | > A preliminary changeset for the switch to automake is now available
| > | 
| > | After running, './autogen.sh', './configure
| > | --prefix=/home/sh/Programmer' and 'make' I get the following output:
| > | 
| > |         make  all-recursive
| > |         make[1]: Entering directory
| > |         `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream-automake'
| > |         Making all in libcruft
| > |         make[2]: Entering directory
| > |         `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream-automake/libcruft'
| > |         make[2]: *** No rule to make target `cacai.lo', needed by
| > |         `libcruft.la'.  Stop.
| > |         make[2]: Leaving directory
| > |         `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream-automake/libcruft'
| > |         make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| > |         make[1]: Leaving directory
| > |         `/home/sh/Dokumenter/octave/octave-hg/upstream-automake'
| > |         make: *** [all] Error 2
| > | 
| > | I don't know what that means :-(
| > 
| > What version of automake are you using?
| 
| 'automake --version' gives me
| 
|         automake (GNU automake) 1.10.2
|         Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|         License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
|         <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
|         This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
|         it.
|         There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
|         
|         Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
|                and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.

OK.  I have 1.11, and I don't have this problem.  Does automake 1.10.2
support the option

  AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects

?  If not, I think we will have to require automake 1.11.

Ah, I see the following note in the NEWS file for automake 1.11:

  * Languages changes:

    - subdir-object mode works now with Fortran (F77, FC, preprocessed
      Fortran, and Ratfor).

so I guess 1.11 is required.

jwe