Hello Assaf, Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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... One convenient way to detect what caused this problem would be to do a ‘git bisect’ session on Automake VCS repository and analyse the diff of the commit introducing the failure. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
