Hi Stefano and thank you for maintaining Automake :) On 10/26/2012 17:29 +0200, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > tags 12688 + patch > thanks > > On 10/26/2012 03:59 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > Hi Matthieu, Sébastien, sorry for the delay. > > I agree the behaviour you want is better and more sensible than the > > current one. In fact, it mimics the behaviour of a macro like > > AC_PROG_YACC, which doesn't abort configure if a bison/yacc program > > is not found in PATH (which makes perfect sense, since Automake > > distributes the bison-generated C sources, exactly to ensure the > > final user doesn't need to have a proper bison/yacc program himself). > > > > However, I'm not going to apply your patch right away because first > > I'd like to work on this other enhancement: > > > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2012-09/msg00012.html> > > > > Once that is done (might be a few days), I will get back to your > > patch. I definitely plan to have it committed (in one form or another) > > before releasing Automake 1.12.5. > > > Here is the patch. Can I have your ACK on it? I will push it by this > evening if there is no answer by then?
This seems perfect, thank you for this fix! > Thanks, > Stefano > > P.S. note that this patch is part of a wider patch series I'm writing, so > it won't apply cleanly on maint or master. I will later post the whole > series on the automake-patches list, in case anyone is interested. I'll test this new version asap. Have a nice day, Thanks, Matt
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