Re: Automake 1.4j: Release Candidate [PATCH]

[Robert Boehne]

Richard:

I just tried your patch with CVS Libtool and it appears that
the problem I'm seeing is not fixed by it.  I am not even
passingly familair with Perl, so could someone look into
this, or perhaps guide me through it?

Thanks,

Robert

Richard Boulton wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 11:06:01AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Lars> Here's one.  The following Makefile.am doesn't generate any object
> > Lars> dependencies.  $(libtest_a_OBJECTS) is always empty.
> >
> > Thanks.  I turned this into a test case.  I'll fix it asap.
> 
> For what it's worth, and since I've looked at the dependency code fairly
> recently, I took a look at this, and I think its the fault of the
> @parent_conds argument in &variable_conditions_sub().  This actually looks
> like outdated logic to me - duplicate or impossible conditionals are
> removed later by &variable_conditions_reduce().
> 
> Removing the @parent_conds machinery and simply recursing through the
> conditional variables and taking all the possible conditional combinations
> makes sense to me, and works correctly as far as I can tell.  I attach a
> patch to do this.  All tests behave as expected after this patch, except
> for cond13.test which passes. :)
> 
> This may make things slightly less efficient, but the whole thing needs
> replacing with something which doesn't do a combinatorial explosion as
> the number of conditionals increases, anyway.  (As previously discussed on
> the list.)
> 
> --
> Richard
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