Hello list,Due to a sudden lack of imagination, I wrote a testsuite named `check' and used it as a `check_SCRIPTS' which led to an infinite recursion of make (because the .PHONY check depends on check-am which does a `$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_SCRIPTS)' so the make has no chance of catching the dependency cycle).
Maybe automake should warn (or bail out) in such a case. I can write a patch for that, if you think that could be something relevant.
I had a quick look at the source to try to see where that check could be inserted, and I ended up in &am_install_var whose documentation surprised me because it did not correspond to the call site at &handle_scripts.
Maybe something along these lines would be better: diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in index 3c47cc1..263674c 100755 --- a/automake.in +++ b/automake.in @@ -6826,8 +6826,10 @@ sub am_primary_prefixes ($$@) # Handle `where_HOW' variable magic. Does all lookups, generates # install code, and possibly generates code to define the primary -# variable. The first argument is the name of the .am file to munge, -# the second argument is the primary variable (e.g. HEADERS), and all +# variable. The first argument can be one of: '-noextra', '-candist', +# or '-defaultdist'. FIXME: Document these options. +# The following argument is the name of the .am file to munge,+# the following argument is the primary variable (e.g. HEADERS), and all
# subsequent arguments are possible installation locations. # # Returns list of [$location, $value] pairs, whereIf I have some time next week, I'll try to port the parallel testsuite thing that Akim wrote because automake takes about an hour to distcheck on my Core2Duo 2Ghz, and I guess it would be much better with make -j2 distcheck.
Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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