The CVS automake, using --add-missing and not using AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR,
is placing depcomp in whatever directory it first encounters C files in
then looking for it during configure in $(top_srcdir).
The problem appears to start on line 3054 of automake.in (in the
handle_dependencies function):
# Set location of depcomp.
local ($prefix) = ($config_aux_dir_specified ? $config_aux_dir
: '$(top_srcdir)');
&define_variable ('depcomp', "\$(SHELL) $prefix/depcomp");
&require_config_file ($FOREIGN, 'depcomp');
I'm not sure what the complete solution is, but it looks like
handle_dependencies isn't called until the first C file is encountered,
at which point &require_config_file adds depcomp to '.' (which could be
a subdir of $(top_srcdir)), ignoring the fact that it just defined the
depcomp variable to '$(top_srcdir)/depcomp'.
My workaround was to copy depcomp into $(top_srcdir) myself and remove
the other copies. After that everything worked like I thought it
should. From my scan of the code, it looks like using the
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR macro in configure.in might also make things work, but
I never tested that theory.
Derek
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