Re: non-portable makefiles?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> > > > "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Bob> Apparently when automake is executed to generate Makefile.in, some
> Bob> saved information is OS-dependent.  That is bad.
>
> I'd love a diff between those two different Makefile.in, then.

My ears are burning now because the diff showed me that the problem 
was due to some local edits I had made to Automake.

However, oddly, after removing these local edits and re-installing 
Automake on both systems, there is still a difference in the generated 
Makefile.in files.  A difference is surely not a good thing:

--- Makefile.in Tue Sep  7 15:18:30 2004
+++ Makefile.in-solaris Tue Sep  7 15:18:15 2004
@@ -5794,26 +5794,26 @@

 distclean-generic:
        -test -z "$(CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES)" || rm -f $(CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES)
-       -rm -f Magick++/lib/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f Magick++/demo/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f Magick++/lib/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f magick/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f coders/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f utilities/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f filters/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f tests/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f ltdl/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f utilities/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f tests/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f wand/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f Magick++/demo/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f filters/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f Magick++/tests/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f Magick++/lib/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f coders/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f wand/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f ltdl/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f Magick++/tests/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f tests/$(am__dirstamp)
-       -rm -f Magick++/lib/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
        -rm -f magick/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f Magick++/demo/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f filters/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f ltdl/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f filters/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f ltdl/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f utilities/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f wand/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f Magick++/tests/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f tests/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f utilities/$(am__dirstamp)
+       -rm -f coders/$(DEPDIR)/$(am__dirstamp)

 maintainer-clean-generic:
        @echo "This command is intended for maintainers to use"