Re: Problem with localcharset test

[Antoine LUONG]

Le 03/09/2018 à 18:27, Bruno Haible a écrit :
> Hi Antoine,
>
> > There seems to be a problem with the addition of the manual test in the
> > localcharset module, when used in a subdirectory:
> >
> >    make[6]: Entering directory `/home/aluong/test-gnulib/libmissing/tests'
> >    make[6]: *** No rule to make target `../../libmissing/libmissing.a',
> > needed by `test-localcharset'. Stop.
> Each of the tests needs to link against the libmissing.a library.
> Therefore this library needs to be built before the tests are compiled
> and linked.
>
> Probably something's wrong in the Makefile regarding the build order...
>
> > The gnulib-tool command used was this one:
> >
> >    gnulib-tool --import --lib=libmissing --source-base=libmissing
> > --m4-base=libmissing/m4 --tests-base=libmissing/tests --with-tests
> > localcharset
> Does it work when you use two directories that are siblings instead
> of ancestors?
>
>     gnulib-tool --import --lib=libmissing --source-base=libmissing \
>    --m4-base=libmissing/m4 --tests-base=libmissing-tests --with-tests \
>    localcharset
>
> Bruno

Thanks for your quick answer.

It works when using sibling directories.
Other tests do work as well, so I figured there was an issue with this 
one because it is defined as noinst_PROGRAMS.

I can reproduce the issue with this minimal Makefile.am:

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I libmissing/m4
SUBDIRS = libmissing

and this configure.ac:

 AC_INIT(mymodule, 1.0.0)
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall tar-pax 1.9])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AM_DISABLE_STATIC
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

 AC_PROG_CC
 gl_EARLY

 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 gl_INIT

 AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 Makefile
 libmissing/Makefile
 libmissing/tests/Makefile
 ])

 AC_OUTPUT

Am I missing something?