Re: gnulib and automake

[Shai Ayal]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:49 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28-Oct-2009, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:07 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > On 28-Oct-2009, Shai Ayal wrote:
> | >
> | > | > A preliminary changeset for the switch to automake is now available
> | > | > here:
> | > | >
> | > | >  http://jweaton.org/automake.gz
> | > | >
> | > | I get a 404 No found error for this URL
> | >
> | > Oops, it is http://jweaton.org/automake-diffs.gz
> | It almost compiles for me except at the very end:
> | ./octave.aux:4743: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
> | @otherbackslash ->@let address@hidden
> |
> | @xrdef #1#2->address@hidden @turnoffactive
> |                                           address@hidden @safexrefname 
> address@hidden
> | l.4743 @xrdef{doc-getenv-pg}{567}
>
> Does the following change fix the problem for you?
>
>
> diff --git a/doc/interpreter/Makefile.am b/doc/interpreter/Makefile.am
> --- a/doc/interpreter/Makefile.am
> +++ b/doc/interpreter/Makefile.am
> @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
>  TEXINPUTS = 
> "..$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)/..$(PATH_SEPARATOR)"
>  export TEXINPUTS
>
> +TEXMFCNF = 
> "..$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(srcdir)/..$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$(TEXMFCNF)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)"
> +export TEXMFCNF
> +
>  dist_man1_MANS = \
>   mkoctfile.1 \
>   octave-bug.1 \
>

Now the error is:
Making all in interpreter
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/shaia/hack/octave-amake/doc/interpreter'
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p . --eval "geometryimages ('voronoi', 'png');"
Makefile:582: *** Recursive variable `TEXMFCNF' references itself
(eventually).  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shaia/hack/octave-amake/doc/interpreter'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1