Hi! I found a problem with AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS. I disabled dependency tracking through the configure command line option, and with recent automake (1.10.2) I kept getting errors like this:
config.status: creating base/Makefile config.status: creating tools/Makefile config.status: creating tools/appserv/Makefile config.status: creating wdg/Makefile config.status: creating owum/Makefile config.status: creating tools/dbc/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: executing depfiles commands ./config.status: [3]: shift: nothing to shift I now traced the problem to depout.m4 in automake. It does this: [test x"$AMDEP_TRUE" != x"" || _AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS] Which results in this code in config.status: 1145 case $ac_file$ac_mode in 1146 "depfiles":C) test x"$AMDEP_TRUE" != x"" || # Autoconf 2.62 quotes --file arguments for eval, but not when files 1147 # are listed without --file. Let's play safe and only enable the eval 1148 # if we detect the quoting. 1149 case $CONFIG_FILES in 1150 *\'*) eval set x "$CONFIG_FILES" ;; 1151 *) set x $CONFIG_FILES ;; 1152 esac 1153 shift Which is obviously wrong, since the '||' only makes the 'case' conditional. This results in no 'set' being called (this $@ $* $# are empty/0). This in turn results in the shift failing, making the while config.status fail. I created a small patch fixing the problem, by making the whole _AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS being affected by the '||'. I've attached it. I guess it's a trivial change, but just in case: I have signed the GNU copyright stuff, so there should be no problem ;) Hope that helps others out... Cheers, Markus
automake-depout.patch
Description: automake-depout.patch
