Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> >> At patchlevel 125 (123-124-125 newly patched), "make reconfig" and "make
> >> distclean" both fail as follows (beware of "mailer beautification":
> >> all lines from GUI_INC_LOC= (included) to --enable-mzschemeinterp
> >> (excluded) end in a backslash):
> >>
> >> Starting make in the src directory.
> >> If there are problems, cd to the src directory and run make there
> >
> > I don't know how you start this, but you apparently didn't do "make
> > distclean" in the "src" directory.
>
> I invoked it in the top directory, and the only rule it executed there was
>
> cd src && $(MAKE) $@
>
> No variables set at that point.
>
> >
> > It's possible that when the timestamp of src/auto/configure changes the
> > scripts get confused a bit. The current autoconf implementation isn't
> > very user friendly when it comes to patching.
> >
> > I don't think I can do anything to avoid this. "make distclean" works
> > fine for me and doesn't run configure first.
> >
>
> It works fine for me too, _except_ when the configure source files have just
> been patched (as by patch 7.0.123) and the configure output files are older.
>
> I suspect the configure run happens because "make distclean" is trying to
> "make" the auto/config.mk which is to be "included" at line 289 of
> src/Makefile (note: "make" is a two-pass process). I suggest the "distclean"
> target rules (at least) be moved to the top Makefile in order to avoid
> including config.mk when making that target.
The place of the include should not matter. The Makefile is first read
completely before dependencies are followed. "distclean" does not
depend on auto/config.mk. Perhaps your make program implies this
dependency when including a file? I would call that a bug (some might
call it a feature...).
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