Re: gperf: new prerequisite

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:45:34PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>      > Well try it for yourself. If I mv /usr/bin/gperf /usr/bin/_gperf, then
>      > I get:
>      >
>      > $ make
>      > make  all-recursive
>      > make[1]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug'
>      > Making all in gl
>      > make[2]: Entering directory `/Scratch/jmd/pspp-confidence-bug/gl'
>      > gperf -m 10 ./iconv_open-aix.gperf > iconv_open-aix.h-t
>      > /bin/sh: gperf: command not found
>      
>      I'm not seeing that behavior.  The following never tries to run
>      gperf here:
>              make dist
>              tar xzf pspp-0.4.3.tar.gz
>              cd pspp-0.4.3
>              mkdir _build
>              cd _build
>              ../configure
>              make
>
> I definitatly see it here.  And in gl/Makefile,  I see: 
>
> iconv_open-aix.h: iconv_open-aix.gperf
>         $(GPERF) -m 10 $(srcdir)/iconv_open-aix.gperf > address@hidden

Yes (I was the one who committed the addition of $(srcdir)/ to
those rules).

> At the risk of asking the obvious, have you recently done :
>
> 1.  cvs update in gnulib
>
> 2.  make -f Smake clean ; make -f Smake in theepspp dir
>
> 3.  made sure there's not a gperf somewhere on the search path

OK, I've done all of those and I still only get gperf running
during a CVS make, not during a make from a tarball created by
"make dist".

Puzzling.
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