Re: Another VPATH problem

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:54:46PM CEST:
> After updating to the latest libtool head version I experience this 
> problem:
> 
> % gmake
> Updating stamp-vcl
> cd /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool && /usr/local/bin/bash 
> /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool/config/missing --run aclocal-1.8 -I m4
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/vorbis.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition 
> of XIPH_PATH_VORBIS
*snip*

Well, this is all old (or buggy) packages of course.

>   cd /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool && /usr/local/bin/bash 
> /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool/config/missing --run automake-1.8 
> --gnits
> configure.ac:177: required file `config/ltmain.sh' not found
> gmake: *** [/home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool/Makefile.in] Error 1

Yes.  It has been there for at least months now.
The workaround was to ./bootstrap after each cvs update.
Except now even after bootstrap some of the autotools are being
invoked again (I don't know which change, and of Libtool or Automake,
caused this).

A fix would be to overwrite each automake rule for invoking
the autotools: touch the $fakes before and remove them afterwards.
And also split the build of the test suite dirs out, else this
whole thing remains completely impractical.

Regards,
Ralf