Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-08-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ralf! Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:11:59PM CEST: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST: FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179

Re: Intermittent test failures

2010-08-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ralf! Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de writes: * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:11:59PM CEST: * Ludovic Courtès wrote on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:08:39AM CEST: FYI the Automake test suite currently fails on Hydra. The build at http://hydra.nixos.org/build/502179

convert a pattern rule to a suffix rule

2010-08-25 Thread YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List
Hello, I know that pattern rules are not portable. When we use one pattern rule, then we call autoreconf, we can see this warning : man/Makefile.am:8: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension So if we want a protable project, we should not use them in a Makefile.am file. But we can use

order of variables and rules in output

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
In a Makefile, the relative order of variable and rule definitions matters, because variables used in targets are expanded when rules are read. If a variable is used in a target before the variable is changed, the variable's former expansion is used in the target, not the latter expansion.

Re: order of variables and rules in output

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Ben, * Ben Pfaff wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:22:58PM CEST: Current Automake appears to reorder the Makefile.am so that all variable assignments precede all rules, so in a Makefile.am the relative order of variable and rule definitions does not matter. Right. Is this behavior

Re: convert a pattern rule to a suffix rule

2010-08-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:14:15AM CEST: I know that pattern rules are not portable. When we use one pattern rule, then we call autoreconf, we can see this warning : man/Makefile.am:8: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension So if we want a