Re: Dependency of Makefile.in on Makefile.am is not aware

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Tzu-Chien,

* Tzu-Chien Chiu wrote on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 07:49:38AM CEST:
> 
> I have a strange problem on cygwin. The Makefile generated by
> 'configure' doesn't detect the change of corresponding Makefile.am.
> I have to manually remove the corresponding Makefile.in to force it to
> be re-generated. I didn't enable the maintainer mode and neither
> have AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.ac.
> 
> Examing generated Makefile I found the dependency of Makefile.in are
> commented out by #. Is it on purpose? Or I missing anything in
> configure.ac?

> $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: # $(srcdir)/Makefile.am  $(am__configure_deps)

The comment sign '#' is added by AM_MAINTAINER_MODE though, as Eric
already mentioned; maybe you had that in an earlier version of
configure.ac?  Rerunning aclocal, automake, and autoconf, followed by
'./configure --enable-maintainer-mode' should fix things.  Maybe some
third-party macro you use pulls in AM_MAINTAINER_MODE?

Cheers,
Ralf