bug#8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles

2012-04-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Reviving and oldish bug report (and CC:ing the Automake list now). Reference: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8665 I wrote: A relevant excerpt [from the manual]: You can add your own variables, so strings of your own choice are shown. The following snippet shows how you would

bug#11302: Automake 1.11d on openSUSE 12.1

2012-04-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Stefano, FAIL: t/depcomp2 [SNIP] ... The file 'stderr' is not empty: It contains this two-line warning configure: WARNING: if you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be

bug#11302: Automake 1.11d on openSUSE 12.1

2012-04-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Stefano, The test looks for a lib/ directory, but make install created a lib64/ directory. This is due to the /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (from $CONFIG_SITE, set by /etc/profile.d/site.sh) which sets a libdir that ends in /lib64 rather than /lib if it finds that the

bug#11306: Automake 1.11d on MacOS X

2012-04-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Stefano, FAIL: t/lex-libobj == + ./configure 'LEXLIB=-L /lib' checking for a BSD-compatible install... /Users/bruno/data/local-macos/bin/install -c ... + make cc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\lex-libobj\ -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\lex-libobj\ ... foo.c:1033: warning: 'yyunput'

bug#11302: Automake 1.11d on openSUSE 12.1

2012-04-22 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/22/2012 07:42 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Stefano, FAIL: t/depcomp2 [SNIP] ... The file 'stderr' is not empty: It contains this two-line warning configure: WARNING: if you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected