bug#19418: AC_CONFIG_FILES / stamp-h? problem

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

I'm afraid I can't easily tell.

It looks like I added a workaround in 
https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/40dd4c5b766ff62a681692b1fa6b72a1023fc81f
 on Dec 20, 2014 (the same day that I initially filed this bug report).

Half of that workaround was removed in June of 2015 when we stopped embedding a 
major component 
(https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/3e1b85ceb36d952190934e041b8894db98bb38ef);
 the other half persisted for several years until we changed packaging of 
another major component in October of 2020 
(https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/commit/0e9581d478a20b496c579c9510ea0f3d644a460d).
  Honestly, I think that when I put in the workaround, we forgot about the 
issue -- the workaround ultimately disappeared organically over time when we 
made other major changes to the Open MPI code base.

So I can't say whether the bug ultimately got fixed in subsequent versions of 
Automake, whether it was fixed in Open MPI's m4 code, or whether the other 
major changes in Open MPI made the issue moot.

-- 
Jeff Squyres
jsquyres@cisco.com

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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 11:03 PM
To: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Cc: 19418@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES / stamp-h? problem

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 15:48:49 +0000, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) wrote:
> I have found what appears to be a subtle bug in the Autotools, and I *think* 
> it may be in Automake.  ...but I am not sure; it could also be a bug in our 
> m4 code.

it's been ... a while.  have you managed to track this down yourself ?
or is this issue still plaguing the project ?
-mike