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bug#7763: Remake rules botch up when 'foreign' and 'ignore-deps' are rem
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
bug#7763: Remake rules botch up when 'foreign' and 'ignore-deps' are removed from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE |
Date: |
Sun, 2 Jan 2011 06:50:13 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-08-04) |
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 that rebuild outdated Makefile.in files using "$(AUTOMAKE) --foreign";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 that rebuild outdated Makefile.in files using "$(AUTOMAKE) --ignore-deps".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
- bug#7763: Remake rules botch up when 'foreign' and 'ignore-deps' are removed from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
Ralf Wildenhues <=