On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 13:18, Ali Akcaagac wrote: > hello, > > question: now that 1.0 was officially out, i wanted to point you guys to > an problem that i have. i am able to solve this problem within 2 seconds > but it would be needfull to fix this anyways. > > i use automake1.5, autoconf2.50. gettext and libtool are out of subject > i think. when doing: > > ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --with-db3=/tmp/db3 > > the configure script is generated correctly and the make process starts. > db3 will be found too without problems. after some seconds the directory > libcal will be joined and in one subdir within it i get the error: > > ../../ylwrap not found > > i then need to copy the ylwrap link which is in the topdir of evolution > to the libcal directory and re-run make again. everything works properly > then. it would be nice to avoid this step and let the configure or make- > process do this copy or link automatically.
Hmm: I get the same behaviour: automake 1.5, autoconf 2.52. This looks to be a bug in automake v1.5. The problem is probably that it's not calculating the path to the top srcdir correctly, because there are nested projects. To expand a little: we have a project called evolution, with a subproject in evolution/libical, with its own configure.in. Within the libical project, ylwrap is needed. automake -a puts a ylwrap in the evolution directory, but not in the evolution/libical directory. However, the path to ylwrap within libical is the path to the evolution/libical directory. Either the path should be to the top level directory, or ylwrap should be installed in the subproject's top level directory. I've not got time currently to find a minimal testcase: if noone else does it within a few days I'll probably get round to it though... I've not seen this problem mentioned before, so it's probably still a problem with the latest CVS automake. -- Richard
