Hi Brian, * Brian J. Murrell wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:26:36PM CET: > Our project, which is admittedly built on older versions of the > autotools seems to be exhibiting some issues when I try to use it with > automake 1.11. > > I have not doubt that this is due to our particular implementation just > not being up to snuff with automake 1.11. I'm just not sure where/why > though. > > The error I can automake, autoconf, etc. and get a valid working > configuration that I can issue make in and all works. At some point > however "make clean" starts failing with: > > CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash > /home/brian/lustre-release/BUILD/lustre-2.0.59/missing --run aclocal-1.11 > cd . && /bin/bash /home/brian/lustre-release/BUILD/lustre-2.0.59/missing > --run automake-1.11 --foreign > automake-1.11: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output
Any chance that your normal bootstrap process passes arguments such as -I m4 to aclocal, and the above rebuild rule needs to be fixed? If you don't have a toplevel Makefile.am, you might need to add a stub am--refresh: rule in the toplevel Makefile.in, to avoid some cases of rebuild failures; more precisely, you should also have correct rules for rebuilding aclocal.m4, configure, config.status, and Makefile in the toplevel Makefile.in. I don't think that is related to the above error though, but I'm not sure. Do you have a link to a tarball that exhibits the problem, and instructions how to reproduce it? Thanks, Ralf