On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:20 PM, <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > I agree that it's awkward.
autoconf & automake are the best and most powerful build tools I know. It's not too easy to learn but luckily there is free support on mailinglists :-) > A simple way to avoid the warning is to do the install-data-local rule > addition unconditionally and declare the feature rules in both > conditions: > > # these rules could be in some include `featureinst.mak': > install-data-local: myinstfeature > if FEATURE > myinstfeature: > touch $(DESTDIR)$(prefix)/feature > else > myinstfeature: > endif ohh that easy it is? For some reason I never had this idea... mmm... Thanks a lot! > I've only tested that with current Automake now, though, but I think it > should work with older. I tested with 1.6.3 and found it working :) > BTW, you should really update to a newer Automake version. I'm afraid that this won't be that easy: ./automake-1.11.1 # ./configure Perl 5.006 required--this is only version 5.00503, stopped at -e line 1. configure: error: perl 5.6 or better is required; perl 5.8.2 or better is recommended. :-) well and I'm afraid our Makefile.am could not work with recent automake versions because we used invalid constructions (because of not knowing it better or obsolete but still active automake-1.4 workarounds). At least we have issues with recent autoconfs (I mean, the issues are with our scripts of course but now get spotted). Ohh, and automake-1.6.3 is much faster that 1.11, right? :-) > We've recently fixed a security-related issue in the 'dist' and > 'distcheck' rules, that is present in all older Automake versions. ohh yes, this is a nasty one... Thanks for bringing it to my attention. oki, Steffen
