Re: AM_MAKE_INCLUDE

[Raja R Harinath]

Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
[snip]
> Meanwhile, I think to have found the cause.
> 
> Somehow, after having touched configure or configure.in, "make" runs
> the "include check" by recursively running make.
> 
> Due to recursively running make, __gmake__ emits a "Entering
> directory ..." message to __stdout__, which interferes with
> autoconf's AM_MAKE_INCLUDE check, which expects a string containing
> plain "done" instead of 
> "make[1]:Entering directory ..done", which it actually seems to
> receive.

That makes sense.  I think those are supressed when you run GNU make
with the '-s' option.  (The -s option was present in Unix 7th Edition
too, so it can pretty much be used with impunity.)

- Hari
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