> From: Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:24:24 -0800 > > I found a problem when trying to configure rhug with srcdir=".". > It would try to mkdir /.deps. The reason was (it seemed) to be a bug > in configure. Since configure is generated by autoconf, I took a > look at cvs autoconf, which seemed to have a variant of the same > problem in aclocal.m4. However, since aclocal.m4 is also > auto-generated, presumably the actual bug is somewhere else, but > a 'grep' failed to find any other files matching 'Strip MF', > so I don't know where to go next.
aclocal.m4 is generated by automake, and the real source is in automake/m4/depout.m4. > Anyway, I don't pretend to understand the code in aclocal.m4, > but it certainly *looks* wrong to set dirpart to "", considering > the mkdir "$dirpart/$DEPDIR" just below. It seems odd, but on the other hand it looks intended (at least in some situations, though apparently not your situation). I'll send this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], where the _real_ experts hang out; perhaps they will explain and/or fix things. > --Per Bothner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/ > > Index: aclocal.m4 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/aclocal.m4,v > retrieving revision 1.18 > diff -u -r1.18 aclocal.m4 > --- aclocal.m4 11 Feb 2002 14:04:54 -0000 1.18 > +++ aclocal.m4 23 Feb 2002 01:07:08 -0000 > @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ > if (head -1 $mf | fgrep 'generated by automake') > /dev/null 2>&1; then > dirpart=`AS_DIRNAME("$mf")` > else > - dirpart= > + dirpart=. > fi > grep '^DEP_FILES *= *[[^ @%:@]]' < "$mf" > /dev/null || continue > # Extract the definition of DEP_FILES from the Makefile without
