Hi Jim. On 02/12/2012 04:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I noticed this an hour or two ago: > > FAIL: makefile-deps > =================== > > [SNIP] > > That's due to this new part of every Makefile.in: > > $ grep -C5 '^ *:' Makefile.in > am__make_dryrun = \ > { \ > am__dry=no; \ > for am__flg in : $(MAKEFLAGS); do \ > case $$am__flg in \ > :) ;; \ > *=*|--*) ;; \ > *n*) am__dry=yes; break;; \ > esac; \ > done; \ > test $$am__dry = yes; \ > > Yes, I've seen this new failure. But the best fix is IMHO to improve the new 'am__make_dryrun' instead (which is proving a little to much brittle in other contexts). This spurious failure will probably disappear by itself after such a fix, so I'd rather avoid tweaking the 'makefile-deps' test at all.
> [SNIP] > I hesitated to update copyright (what's automake's policy?) > since I'm used to performing a mass-update in early January so > that patches aren't constantly polluted with a distracting > copyright-updating hunk throughout each year. > I think automake should begin to follow this simpler and more rational policy as well. Care to write a patch? Thanks, Stefano