Hello,
I've encountered a problem where a released tarball (of 'make dist')
generated by Automake-1.16.1 fails to build with non-gnu make (e.g.
"bmake" on BSDs).
The exact same project and 'make dist' with automake-1.15 builds fine.
It has something to do with non-recursive makefile structure common
to some gnu projects.
I haven't been able to pin-point the issue, so if anyone has some ideas
or suggestions they are very welcomed.
One way to reproduce (with GNU hello):
1. with "automake-1.15":
$ automake --version | head -1
automake (GNU automake) 1.15
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/hello.git
$ cd hello
# Build, then clean - emulating a 'make dist' situation
$ ./bootstrap && ./configure && make
[... all ok ...]
$ make clean
# Now build with BSD Make
$ bmake
[ .. builds ok ... ]
2. Repeat the exact same steps with automake-1.16.1,
and "bmake" will fail with:
$ bmake
[...]
Making all in po
depbase=`echo src/hello.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`; gcc
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Ilib
-I./lib -Isrc -I./src -g -O2 -MT src/hello.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo
-c -o src/hello.o src/hello.c && mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
bmake[2]: don't know how to make ./lib/libhello.a. Stop
bmake[2]: stopped in /tmp/hello-test/hello
*** Error code 1
The 'bmake' here is BSD-make from the stock Debian 'bmake' package,
but the same happens on FreeBSD.
----
The same happens in my package (GNU datamash).
It doesn't happen in GNU sed or GNU coreutils - I'm still trying to
find out what are the differences between the packages that do fail
and don't fail...
If this rings any bells, please let me know.
Thanks,
- assaf
