Re: amhello build prob

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Patrick Welche wrote on Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:44:21PM CEST:
> Building automake, after
> 
> gmake distclean
> cvs update
> sh bootstrap
> configure

Bzzt.  At this point, you are not building Automake.  You are building
whatever package this configure comes from: somewhere in $PATH.
Looks to me like you shouldn't do such thing, if it hurts.  ;-)

> gmake

> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/local/automake/doc'
> ...
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating src/Makefile

The Automake package does not contain a "src" directory.

> config.status: creating config.h

Neither a config header (no C sources near or far here).

> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> make: don't know how to make w. Stop

> Yet then
> 
> cd doc
> gmake
> cd ..
> gmake
> 
> succeeds?!

Hmm, dunno.  Whatever package you're building may have a benign doc
directory...

> I can then repeat at the top and get stuck making "w" again
> or run gmake check and pass all 585 tests..

No released version of Automake has 585 tests (thanks Alexandre for the
stats table!), neither does CVS HEAD.  Or did you mean without SKIPped
or XFAILed tests?

Cheers,
Ralf