useful bug reports (was: [Patch] Re: compile not copied? Why?)
Hi Harald, * Harald Dunkel wrote on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:44:12PM CET: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Please consider this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-10/msg00069.html How is this thread related to copying a missing script? It shows that your patch is not enough, for the issue I presumed your report was about. Please note that C support is broken, too, as soon as there is some C++ code in your Makefile.am. Harald, please consider *providing more and useful information* if you want help. I for one can't read your mind, and almost every first post of yours leaves me wanting for a crystal ball as to what has gone wrong. This makes me for one be less and less enthusiastic about replying. With newbies, or people where I do not know whether they are newbies or not, one cannot expect more, at least the first couple of times they post. But you bee given hints before. This is no service hotline. I heartily recommend reading this (available in several languages): http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html We have now again wasted 5 messages without getting to the point of the problem you encounter: I still have no clue what's going wrong on your side, and I bet you aren't happy about the situation either. This example setup does not expose your bug: mkdir sub touch sub/a.c sub/b.cc cat configure.ac EOF AC_INIT([compile-issue],[1],[devnull]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects]) AC_PROG_CC AM_PROG_CC_C_O AC_PROG_CXX AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_OUTPUT EOF cat Makefile.am EOF bin_PROGRAMS = foo foo_SOURCES = sub/a.c sub/b.cc EOF autoreconf -vi | [...] | autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force | configure.ac:4: installing `./compile' So, what really is the problem, and how can it be exposed, and with which software versions? Cheers, Ralf
[Patch] Re: compile not copied? Why?
Hi folks, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, What is the criteria for copying the compile script into the source directory tree? I have some *.cc code, it is mentioned in my Makefile.am file, configure detects that the compile script must be used, too, but Automake doesn't provide it. It seems that the compile script is only copied, if you have C code only. As soon as you have C++ code in your Makefile.am (with or without C code), compile is not copied into the source tree anymore. This breaks support for MSVC. Below you can find a patch. Regards Harri -- diff -urN automake-1.9.6.orig/automake.in automake-1.9.6/automake.in --- automake-1.9.6.orig/automake.in 2005-06-30 23:17:13.0 +0200 +++ automake-1.9.6/automake.in 2005-11-07 15:58:49.0 +0100 @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ my $output_flag = $lang-output_flag || ''; $output_flag = '-o' if (! $output_flag - $lang-name eq 'c' + ($lang-name eq 'c' || $lang-name eq 'cxx') option 'subdir-objects'); # Compute a possible derived extension. @@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ $object = $dname . '-' . $object; require_conf_file ($am_file.am, FOREIGN, 'compile') -if $lang-name eq 'c'; +if $lang-name eq 'c' || $lang-name eq 'cxx'; prog_error ($lang-name . flags defined without compiler) if ! defined $lang-compile;
Re: [Patch] Re: compile not copied? Why?
Hi Harald, * Harald Dunkel wrote on Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:00:18PM CET: Harald Dunkel wrote: What is the criteria for copying the compile script into the source directory tree? I have some *.cc code, it is mentioned in my Makefile.am file, configure detects that the compile script must be used, too, but Automake doesn't provide it. It seems that the compile script is only copied, if you have C code only. As soon as you have C++ code in your Makefile.am (with or without C code), compile is not copied into the source tree anymore. This breaks support for MSVC. Below you can find a patch. Please consider this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-10/msg00069.html Cheers, Ralf
Re: [Patch] Re: compile not copied? Why?
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hi Harald, Please consider this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2005-10/msg00069.html How is this thread related to copying a missing script? Please note that C support is broken, too, as soon as there is some C++ code in your Makefile.am. Regards Harri
