On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Thomas Tanner wrote:

> 
> On 15-Sep-99 Holger Waechtler wrote:
> > the fixam script, which enables automatic dependency tracking, if gcc and
> > gnu make are available, is now called automatically from bootstrap.
> 
>  No, the other way round: fixam disables automatic dependency tracking,
>  if gcc and gnu make are not available. I decided not to call it from bootstrap
>  because a non-GNU developer you would always overwrite the
>  default Makefile.am's (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS commented out) when doing CVS checkins.
>  Could you please undo your change?
> 

If I understood your script right, it works in both directions, doesn't 
it ?  (I could not test it, since I have no none-gnu compiler - Brian ??)

If so, it would be no problem, if people check in 'corrupted'
Makefile.am's.


>  Btw: Brian, we must make sure that automatic dependency tracking
>  is disabled before we release beta 3. Otherwise configure won't
>  work on non-GNU systems.
> 

That shouldn't be a problem -- in the release the dependent files 
shouldn't change anymore. 


- Holger



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