On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:19:17AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I just released Automake 1.4d, the latest prerelease leading up to
> 1.5. Find it here:
>
> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.4d.tar.gz
>
> This release is mostly bug fixes. There are some minor known bugs and
> some uncommitted patches required for 1.5 that are pending paperwork.
> Nevertheless, this release should be ok in many situations. Please
> try it and report any bugs you find.
I just got around to installing this on an IRIX 6.5 system, yesterday.
The main problem that I quickly ran into was that it didn't work
with the version of perl that we had (5.004_04). I installed perl 5.6,
and it works with that.
The other problem quickly apparent is that tests/pr19.test fails.
This test generates an empty lex file, compiles the resulting .c
file, and generates a tarball with "make dist":
...
echo %% > foo.l
...
$MAKE || exit 1
Unfortunately, with both flex version 2.4.7, and flex version 2.5.4,
the make bombs out, because the file "foo.c" doesn't have a main()
function. Should it? I dunno...
I installed it anyway, and noticed that "automake --add-missing"
installed the "depcomp" link into the first subdir listed in the
toplevel Makefile.am "SUBDIRS" variable. I think this problem has
been previously reported. Once I moved depcomp to the top level, the
build went fine.
Thanks,
-Steve
