Richard, thank you for the reply. Automake 1.5 solves the problem, more details below.
On 22 Sep 2001, Richard Boulton wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-09-22 at 00:07, Ben Smith wrote:
> > I didn't have this problem until I introduced the conditionals in the Makefile.am.
>
> I can't say why this problem is happening since I've not got 1.4p4
> installed, and havn't time to try it out. However, having worked on
> fixing it for 1.5, I can say that the conditional code in the 1.4 branch
> was severely broken in several ways. There's little prospect of anyone
> doing the work required to backport the fixes to the 1.4 series.
Okay, good to know.
> (There's hardly enough developer time on this project to support 1.5) I
> suspect the most practical solution is to move to 1.5 and fix the "slew
> of other issues" that produces.
>
Honestly, I didn't look too in-depth at those issues. I just saw that I got several
warnings about macros being undefined and probably some other things and decided that
I'd rather see what people on the mailing list thought.
> In any case, we would greatly appreciate reports of issues with automake
> 1.5.
>
I resolved the issues, they were easy enough to fix. The first bit of it was warnings
when am 1.5 read the aclocal.m4 that had been added to by automake1.4-p4 and 1.4-p5,
not surprising it didn't like that. The second was adding my libtool.m4 to a place
where automake would be happy with it.
My only real resistance to using 1.5 was it's not yet installed via debian unstable,
and I wasn't sure if others would need am 1.5 to build my software. They don't.
My conditionals in my Makefile.am work just fine with automake 1.5. I have tried it
on machines with SDL and without, everything seems cool.
> Sorry not to have an easy fix.
>
> --
> Richard
>
Well, it wasn't very hard, either. Another option for me may have been to put all the
optional stuff in a separate directory and add that directory via @extra tests@ to one
of the Makefile.am files. I didn't try this because I'm happy with the current
resolution.
Thank you, and others that work on this tool. I really don't want to deal with the
multi-platform compilation nightmare. I appreciate all the work you guys do, it makes
it easier for me to reach a lot of people with my projects.
-b
