On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
This is really embarrasing for my project.
No, it isn't.
It is from my POV since it indicates a distinct lack of perfection.
I am at wits end. I am about to cry.
Can I get you a cookie to stop you from being about to cry?
Yes please!
Is there a way to avoid this dire situation?
You can probably hack automake/lib/am/subdirs.am to emit a different
$(RECURSIVE_TARGETS) rule; be sure to check that all instances matching
grep recursive automake/automake.in automake/lib/am/*.am
The 'all' rule looks like this due to the documented behavior of
BUILT_SOURCES:
all: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
$(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) all-am
Investigation shows that the definition of BUILT_SOURCES is
BUILT_SOURCES = ltdl/$(ARGZ_H)
so libtool is to blame for BUILT_SOURCES being non-empty.
BUILT_SOURCES is a convenience crutch. If BUILT_SOURCES was empty
then it seems that the annoying default recursion could be eliminated.
The only remaining benefit I see to the recursion is to introduce
AM_MAKEFLAGS to the make arguments (empty by default).
If both SUBDIRS and BUILT_SOURCES are empty, it seems that Automake
should produce a Makefile which is non-recursive for a simple 'make'.
Other targets likely still require some recursion.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
