Re: gnulib and automake

[Thomas Treichl]

Thomas Treichl schrieb:
> Hi John,
>
> on my Mac OS X 10.4 system I currently have two problems (sources still 
> compiling this night, don't know if there are further problems)... The 
> first thing is that in all subdirectories of libcruft eg. libcruft/amos 
> etc. there don't exist ".deps" directories and they also cannot be build 
> on my system (I currently have no idea what causes this or which command 
> is doing this). The error looks like this (without any further 
> information about which command calls "cp" or such)
>
>   Making all in libcruft
>   cp: illegal option -- d
>   usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
>          cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN 
> directory
>   mv: rename amos/#inst.16473# to amos/.deps: No such file or directory
>   /bin/sh: line 1: amos/.deps/.dirstamp: No such file or directory
>   make[2]: *** [amos/.deps/.dirstamp] Error 1
>   make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>   make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> If I create all ".deps" directories by hand in all subdirectories of 
> libcruft then I also can make libcruft.

Ok, finally I also found out this problem and found a simple solution for it. 
With your patch there comes a file in the root directory that is called 
"install-sh". This file is a GNU/Linux file (at least I know that you are 
working on a GNU/Linux box ;) and doesn't work very well on Macs. I removed this 
file from my copy of the sources and autogen.sh'ed once again. Then install-sh 
is created automatically (actually a link is created) which works very well and 
also can handle the "-d" option correctly, see last line of this ./autogen.sh 
output snippet:

  calling aclocal...
  generating source lists for liboctave/Makefile...
  generating doc/interpreter/images.mk...
  generating src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/module.mk...
  calling autoheader...
  calling automake...
  configure.ac:44: installing `./install-sh'

The install-sh file that is generated on my system then is a link that looks 
like

  bash$ ls -l install-sh
  lrwxr-xr-x   1 Thomas  Thomas  41 Oct 30 20:13 install-sh ->
    /usr/local/share/automake-1.11/install-sh

I think the best thing to solve this problem is to remove the "install-sh" file 
from the sources because it is autogenerated.

Thanks and best regards

  Thomas