On 2019-08-24 7:34 a.m., Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Assaf Gordon wrote:
I've encountered a problem where a released tarball (of 'make dist')
generated by Automake-1.16.1 fails to build with non-gnu make (e.g.
"bmake" on BSDs).
The exact same project and 'make dist' with automake-1.15 builds fine.
The problem may very well have to do with parts obtained from gnulib or
an implementation artifact from the template Makefiles.
I certainly agree - but it seems like a regression in Automake where
a structure that worked for several years (and several automake
versions) now stopped working.
I'm looking for any hints or ideas as to what changed or what is causing
the failure...
I did a test build of GraphicsMagick using Illumos '/usr/bin/make' under
OmniOSce and under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using 'bmake'. The test builds
succeeded (even parallel builds), including the test suite.
GraphicsMagick uses a non-recursive build, but does not depend on gnulib
or 'po' files.
Thanks for testing!
