bug#18286: distcheck fails to detect missing files

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi, I have this snippet in my 'Makefile.am' include am/test_data.am $(srcdir)/am/test_data.am: $(srcdir)/test/data.txt $(srcdir)/am/test_data.am.in cd $(srcdir) $(SHELL) bootstrap am/test_data.am It first includes (at Automake time) a snippet, which is generated while bootstrapping.

Using $(variables) in source file list

2014-08-17 Thread fr33domlover
Hello automakers! I'm using autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.11.6 (Debian 7 stable). Recently I tried defining the source code folder name using a variable and strange things happen. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or my mistake. Here's the revelant part from Makefile.am, before the change, which

Re: *CLEANFILES dependency

2014-08-17 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-08-12 Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: Yes, but I think you have clean/distclean backwards. There are four clean targets: mostlyclean clean distclean maintainer-clean Each target in the list performs all the actions of the targets above it in addition to

Re: make install-dirPRIMARY

2014-08-17 Thread fr33domlover
On 2014-08-12 fr33domlover fr33domlo...@riseup.net wrote: Hello, I'm writing a Makefile.am with a custom piece for building, distributing and installing Doxygen-generated documentation. All the generated files are used as values for the special-scheme variables, e.g. 'dist_reference_DATA

Re: Using $(variables) in source file list

2014-08-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, fr33domlover wrote: Why does it happen? Is this a known problem? I didn't find any material on the web. Of course I can move the definition of src to configure.ac, but I'd like to know what I'm missing (or is it a bug). Automake does not support Make-style computations of

Re: Guide on updating autofoo

2014-08-17 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: As porting work (for arm64) recently I have done a lot of fixing up packages to run autoreconf on build as this is the only way to ensure that their config.sub/guess and libtool files are up to date for architectures released

Re: make install-dirPRIMARY

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Johansson
On 08/18/2014 03:07 AM, fr33domlover wrote: Anyone has some advice? My code uses those targets at the moment, but I'm not sure it's good for long term. Not sure I understand your problem, but have you read the 'Extending' section in the manual