Re: automake 1.5

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:06:23PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >> "DB" == Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> The whole of KDE won't build with automake 1.5.
> 
> > Are you sure?  Even if you call aclocal before building?
> 
> Same for gnome-core and gnome-libs :
> 
> Running xml-i18n-toolize... Ignore non-fatal messages.
> patching file po/Makefile.in.in
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 35 (offset 1 line).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 87 (offset 1 line).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 173 (offset 2 lines).
> Running libtoolize...
> You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
> Running aclocal  -I macros ...
> Running autoheader...
> autoheader2.50: config.h.in is unchanged
> Running automake --gnu  ...
> 63: bad macro name `-ourdir'
> 63: bad macro name `-ourdir'

Hi Christian,

in gnome-core, Makefile.in's have spaces instead of tab in front of -ourdir,
this may confuse automake.
And buildd.debian.org reports a successful build of gnome-libs, so I am not
sure there is a problem here.

Denis