bug#31417: Compilation failure when source directory is renamed to automake

2018-05-11 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 11.05.2018 um 17:40 schrieb Charles Gonnaud: Hello all, I encountered some difficulties today when trying to compile automake 1.16.1 from the sources : automake wouldn't compile if the parent directory was named automake. [...] cp -r automake-1.16.1 automake Ah, but you're not just

bug#31417: Compilation failure when source directory is renamed to automake

2018-05-11 Thread Charles Gonnaud
Hello all, I encountered some difficulties today when trying to compile automake 1.16.1 from the sources : automake wouldn't compile if the parent directory was named automake. If this is not a bug but a feature, a simple warning message would be nice to prevent some other people from losing