Re: nearly there... yet another question first

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:

Robert> Now automake --foreign in the root of the source tree (uhmm,thats
Robert> ../../../../../ ) complains about a missing compile
Robert> script. --add-missing installs compile in the leaf branch.

Robert> Commenting out the _CFLAGS line removes the complaint.

Robert> Why doesn't it install compile in the top_srcdir?

The code that decides where to find these programs is hacky.

Try putting the compile program in the top directory, remove it from
the leaf directory, and re-run automake.  Maybe it won't complain.

Robert> Is the relationship between compile and using _CFLAGS a guaranteed
Robert> thing, or is there something elsewhere in the project (configure.in
Robert> etc ) that could remove the need for compile?

The former.  Using _CFLAGS like that requires a compiler that
understands `-c -o'.  Some don't, and compile is a wrapper for those.

At some point we should just stop supporting compilers that lose that
badly.

Tom