bug#62791: BUILT_SOURCES not honoured in parallel build?

2023-12-08 Thread Karl Berry
The manual currently says: "You should never explicitly mention the intermediate (C or C++) file in any `SOURCES' variable; only list the source file." I don't know the code here, and this probably wasn't the question, but I think the manual's statement about "any `SOURCES'

bug#67673: Automake cannot be installed , help will be highly appreciated

2023-12-08 Thread Karl Berry
nobase-python: running python -V Python 3.12.0 ... ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp' Looks like the failing tests are all Python-related, at least several with the above error. I don't think Python 3.12 was even released at the time of automake 1.16.5. I don't know what

bug#62791: BUILT_SOURCES not honoured in parallel build?

2023-12-08 Thread Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for Automake
On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 23:59, Karl Berry wrote: > Any chance that one of you could write a patch for the manual to explain > whatever needs to be explained (better)? --thanks, karl. > I'd happily do that if I could work out, or someone could explain, exactly what's going on here. The manual