tags 7635 wontfix close 7635 thanks * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:35:32PM CET: > If configure.ac does not contain a call to AC_OUTPUT, Automake > does not fail as expected when file(s) specified in calls to > macros AC_LIBSOURCE and/or AC_LIBSOURCES do not exist. See the > attached test script. > > Now, while the lack of AC_OUTPUT in configure.ac is almost surely > a user error, IMHO it shouldn't prevent Automake from warning about > other errors (in this case, the non-existence of files specified in > calls to macros AC_LIBSOURCE and AC_LIBSOURCES).
Sorry, but I think the mechanism is fully adequate for any real-life situation: the developer will first see that configure won't produce any files, fix that bug by adding AC_OUTPUT, then see the other automake error. We don't need to ensure that all errors are non-followup ones, that is impossible in practice. I'm thus closing this bug as invalid. Thanks for the report, Ralf
