Re: Iperf build break with emake.

[Kamaljit Singh]

I've used emake and always get this error irrespective of package.
Ofcourse, this happens only when something changes and automake
decides to recreate configure and then rerun it.

All I've been able to trace is that emake (probably) runs the configure script
on one of its agents and that creates the conftest.make file but when configure
invokes make (really emake) over this conftest.make file that gets hived off to 
another
agent and that doesnt know anything about this file since this is not an 
explicitly
stated generated file ... Checkout the macro expansion in configure.

And no I havent been able to work around this problem so far.

If you rerun emake after this error, it generally reruns correctly ...

--- On Wed, 6/18/08, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
From: Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Iperf build break with emake.
To: "Upakul Barkakaty" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 1:37 PM

Hello,

* Upakul Barkakaty wrote on Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:41:15PM CEST:
> 
>  If I try to build iperf with standard linux make, then it builds fine.
>  But instead if I use Electronic Make (emake) utility, then the build
breaks.
> 
>  make[4]: conftest.make: No such file or directory
>  make[4]: *** No rule to make target `conftest.make'.  Stop.
>  make[4]: confmf: No such file or directory
>  make[4]: *** No rule to make target `confmf'.  Stop.
> 
> Is that got something to do with how automake is configuring? Please
> could you let me know of some workaround for this if this has to be
> done with emake?

I have no idea.  I don't know iperf, neither emake, I don't even have
an
idea whether iperf uses automake at all.  The iperf maintainers may be
in a much better position to answer this; otherwise, you'd first have to
provide a lot more information.

HTH.  Cheers,
Ralf