Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-09-07 Thread Miles Bader
So what do you think? Is my characterization reasonable/unreasonable, am I missing something, ... or ...? Any other opinions? -miles -- `Suppose Korea goes to the World Cup final against Japan and wins,' Moon said. `All the past could be forgiven.' [NYT]

Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-09-03 Thread Miles Bader
Stefano Lattarini writes: > It seems to me that the situation there has improved a lot in the > recent years, to the point that recursive and non-recursive build > support is almost on-par (and the non-recursive option is the > recommended one). Or are you referring to documentation issues rather

Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-09-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Miles. On 08/29/2013 06:02 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Diego Elio Pettenò writes: I would also argue for just using non-recursive automake, but it might be the least of your problems for now. "Just" is probably not the right term, as it generally seems to require more work to make a good non-r

Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-09-03 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 08/26/2013 03:30 PM, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey All, Hi Shawn, sorry for the delay. I'm working on ClamAV and am restructuring our autoconf/automake scripts to be a bit more organized and modernized. On one machine, I have automake 1.14 installed.. On another, much older machine, I have automak

Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-08-28 Thread Miles Bader
Diego Elio Pettenò writes: > I would also argue for just using non-recursive automake, but it might be > the least of your problems for now. "Just" is probably not the right term, as it generally seems to require more work to make a good non-recursive build setup with automake, even if it's funct

Re: Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-08-28 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Shawn Webb wrote: > clamd_SOURCES = \ This is just a guess because I can't look at your repositories right now, but I would suggest bringing the declaration of clamd_SOURCES *outside* the conditional, that might fix the make distclean. I would also argue for ju

Issues with subdir-objects and differing versions of automake

2013-08-26 Thread Shawn Webb
Hey All, I'm working on ClamAV and am restructuring our autoconf/automake scripts to be a bit more organized and modernized. On one machine, I have automake 1.14 installed.. On another, much older machine, I have automake 1.11.1 installed. Quick history of why I'm emailing: ClamAV's codebase has