[automake-commit] branch master updated: cosmetics: improve error message when dependency tracking fails

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commit c3ad6b0b757ae6859ed7ea95149567bd9b0c6054
Author: Libor Bukata <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Fri Feb 14 18:36:49 2020 -0800

    cosmetics: improve error message when dependency tracking fails
    
    This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/35848.
    
    * m4/depout.m4: Add suggestion to try GNU make to the error message.
    Original patch at
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2019-05/msg00000.html
---
 m4/depout.m4 | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/m4/depout.m4 b/m4/depout.m4
index b3cadcb..d612876 100644
--- a/m4/depout.m4
+++ b/m4/depout.m4
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS],
   done
   if test $am_rc -ne 0; then
     AC_MSG_FAILURE([Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
-    for automatic dependency tracking.  Try re-running configure with the
+    for automatic dependency tracking.  If GNU make was not used, consider
+    re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is
+    necessary).  You can also try re-running configure with the
     '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build
     the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).])
   fi