Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:38:45PM CET: > Currently, the Automake-generated rebuild rules[1] invoke automake with > some command-line options derived from arguments given to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. > > [1] For more info, see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Rebuilding.html> > > For example, putting `foreign' in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE generates remake rules > that rebuild outdated Makefile.in files using "$(AUTOMAKE) --foreign"; > similarly, `no-dependencies' in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE generates remake rules > that rebuild outdated Makefile.in files using "$(AUTOMAKE) --ignore-deps".
I agree that this is a bug. Question is, does removing the arguments break other, legitimate uses? Or was this functionality purely added at a time before automake could trace configure.ac macros? The tests might suffer from the trace caching bug as well, haven't checked. Thanks, Ralf
