It seems some BSD makes don't look through VPATH for targets either
(i.e. when they're not found in $(builddir) make assumes they are
missing and rebuilds).
Mostly this isn't a problem, but there are a few cases where it is. For
example, info targets are rebuilt every time and I can't create a
*_TEXINFOS dependency that works from outside $(srcdir) for both a build
and a make dist without extra configure work.
The following configure.in code will discover if the bug is present and
set an AUTOMAKE conditional switch based on that:
# BSD's logo is a devil for a reason, hey?
AC_CACHE_CHECK(for BSD VPATH bug in make, ccvs_cv_bsd_make_vpath_bug,
[if test ! -d ac_test_dir ; then
AC_TRY_COMMAND([mkdir ac_test_dir])
fi
cat conftestmake EOF
VPATH = ac_test_dir
ac_test_target: ac_test_dep
echo BSD VPATH bug present 2
ac_test_dep: ac_test_dep_dep
EOF
touch ac_test_dir/ac_test_dep_dep
touch ac_test_dir/ac_test_dep
touch ac_test_target
# Don't know why, but the following test doesn't work under FreeBSD 4.2
# without this sleep command
sleep 1
if AC_TRY_COMMAND([make -f conftestmake 21 /dev/null
|grep ^BSD\ VPATH\ bug\ present\$ /dev/null]) ; then
ccvs_cv_bsd_make_vpath_bug=yes
else
ccvs_cv_bsd_make_vpath_bug=no
fi
AC_TRY_COMMAND([rm -rf ac_test_dir ac_test_target conftestmake])])
# We also don't need to worry about the bug when $srcdir = $builddir
AM_CONDITIONAL(MAKE_TARGETS_IN_VPATH, \
test $ccvs_cv_bsd_make_vpath_bug = no \
|| test $srcdir = .)
I used the above test to create a conditional target for my *_TEXINFOS,
but there's nothing I can do about the info_TEXINFOS targets without
sticking my fingers into the automake code again.
Derek
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