>>> "David" == David Petrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Hi. I have a project (collection of configure.in, Makefile.am's,
David> etc.) that automake 1.4 worked fine on. But when I try automake 1.5 I
David> get all sorts of errors. To me, it looks like the behavior of
David> `include' might have changed,
I don't think so, it's just that Automake has become more picky
about variable assignments. Apparently it will detect recursive
variable assignment, even for `:='-style assignments (sounds
like a wart to me).
Anyway, `:=' is not portable (it's not defined by POSIX, and for
instance in OSF make it means something completely different),
so you'd better avoid it if portability matters.
A possible rewrite of
FOO = @FOO@
if COND
FOO := $(FOO) bar
endif
is
if COND
FOO_COND = bar
endif
FOO = @FOO@ $(FOO_COND)
[...]
David> automake: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
Run `automake --add-missing' to fix this.
David> /usr/local/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not
David> appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
Usually solved by running `aclocal', and better diagnosed by
Automake 1.6.3 (may I suggest upgrading?).
[...]
David> So, you can see that what I'm trying to do is use $host_os to set
David> PDL_*. Then I use this information to later set various compile
David> options (LDFLAGS, etc.).
IMHO these flags would be better set from configure, but that's
another story.
[...]
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
