On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I don't think current autotools have this behavior. Can you please post a small test case?
Hi Ralf, I had misinterpreted the cause for this problem, and thus at first couldn't create a test case showing this behaviour. The problem occurs when configure.ac contains a "computed m4_sinclude". The attached small shell script creates and exercised a test case. In order to further simplify things I replaced m4_sinclude by m4_include and suddenly saw the root of the problem, because then aclocal complained about a missing file "File". It seems that (with m4_sinclude) aclocal doesn't see the included file and consequently has no reason to update aclocal.m4. Didn't we discuss a somewhat similar problem (aclocal mishandling included files) a few years back? Best regards Peter Breitenlohner <[email protected]>
