> On Feb 5, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Alex Aycinena <alex.aycin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I run './autogen.sh' on my Fedora 21 machine, I get the following: > > Makefile.am:10: warning: source file 'util/guile.c' is in a subdirectory, > Makefile.am:10: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled > automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility. > automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the > 'subdir-objects' > automake: automake option hasn't been enabled. For now, the corresponding > output > automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory. > However, > automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will > automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same > subdirectory > automake: of the corresponding sources. > automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout > your > automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities. > > followed by many messages like the following: > > src/app-utils/Makefile.am:40: warning: source file > 'calculation/expression_parser.c' is in a subdirectory, > src/app-utils/Makefile.am:40: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled > > This is between the lines: > > Running automake --add-missing --gnu --warnings=no-portability ... > > and > > Running autoconf ... > > configure, make and make install all seem to work fine.On my Fedora 20 > machine I don't see these warnings. > > I don't know if this is because of something different in my environment > between the two or because of the versions of the tools in the two machines. > > Can someone give me feedback? I believe, Greet, you use Fedora also. Do you > see this as well? >
Alex, There’s actually an explanation in configure.ac: # Initialize automake -- make sure we have at least version 1.9 Note: # Automake 1.14 issues a ton of warnings about subdir-objects, which # will become the default in automake 2.0; unfortunately this option # is broken and prevents building without passing # --disable-dependency-tracking to configure, which make-distcheck # doesn't do. See # http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2014-04/msg00002.html and # http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13928 for details. # In the meantime the best option is to use Automake 1.13 or earlier. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
