----- "Ralf Wildenhues" <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hellom > > * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 09:59:35PM CEST: > > ----- "Bruno Haible" wrote: > > > In the newest autoconf 2.66, AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS warns when it is > > > invoked with more than one directory. But this way of invoking it > is > > > supported, see the doc: > > > > Thanks for the report, and sorry for the regression. Does this > > (untested) patch fix things for you? > > Proposed patch for this. OK to commit?
Yes, looks good. > > Please note that I'm trying to merely fix the regression part here. > The > Subdirectories node of the manual also documents: > > If a given DIR is not found, an error is reported: if the > subdirectory is optional, write: > > if test -d "$srcdir/foo"; then > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS([foo]) > fi > > which isn't true either: we don't warn or error if a subdirectory is > not > present. This is *not* a recent regression, and it's on purpose that > I > don't want to change this behavior before the next release; I fear > that > packages rely on the broken behavior but do not intend to test this > right now. Agreed; this would probably be better as a documentation change rather than a code behavior change, but a separate patch for that issue is fine. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org