At Tuesday 20 April 2010, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Yeah, heirlooom make has a .l.o rule that triggers before our .l.c > and .c.o rule chains. > > I guess this could be worked around by adding explicit rules (at > least that's what SUSv3 recommends), > maybe explicit dependencies without rules suffice. Yes, they does. I hacked a bit the silent5.test to demonstrate this (the diff is in the attached "patch"). However, I don't know enough Automake internals to easily write a patch integrating this knowledge into Automake core.
> I'm not sure we should spend time on this old make, though. If I venture to write a patch to solve this problem, will you consider it? As I said, I'm blissfully ignorant of Automake internals, so don't expect too much -- but I might give it a try nonetheless. Thanks, Stefano
From 24db3abde7bf91af382aec760e7924549a7fbd3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:14:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tweak silent5.test to cater for heirloom make bug --- tests/silent5.test | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/silent5.test b/tests/silent5.test index 1f06cf0..b0f9291 100755 --- a/tests/silent5.test +++ b/tests/silent5.test @@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ $ACLOCAL $AUTOMAKE --add-missing $AUTOCONF +# tweak generated Makefile.in, required to have heirloom-make working +echo 'foo5.o: foo5.c' >> Makefile.in +echo 'baz5.o: baz5.c' >> sub/Makefile.in + # configure once for fastdep, once for non-fastdep, once for nodep for config_args in '' am_cv_CC_dependencies_compiler_type=gcc \ --disable-dependency-tracking -- 1.6.5
