Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Tim Rice]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 
> > > The VPATH build is quite useful for libtool, particularly given that
> > > 'make clean' and 'make distclean' do not work unless the testsuite has
> > > been successfully run.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on that?  How can I reproduce non-working 'make
> > clean'?
> 
> I am not sure if the problem still exists.  For a number of years it was not
> possible since the Makefiles in the test subdirectories were broken or did not
> exist.  Or perhaps the problem was lmited to 'make distclean'.

'make distclean' has had problems with VPATH builds because of a deficency
in automake (at least 1.9.6). If you ran 'make distclean' before running
the test suite some directories would be missing causing an error.

This patch fixes it.
...
--- automake-1.9.6/lib/am/subdirs.am.old        2005-05-14 13:21:06.000000000 
-0700
+++ automake-1.9.6/lib/am/subdirs.am    2005-10-27 21:04:01.460314004 -0700
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
        esac; \
        rev=''; for subdir in $$list; do \
          if test "$$subdir" = "."; then :; else \
-           rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
+           test -d "$$subdir"  &&  rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
          fi; \
        done; \
 ## Always do `.' last.
...

I bug reported it in Oct 2005 so it may be fixed by now.

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