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Re: dependency tracking error message


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: dependency tracking error message
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 20:43:16 -0800

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:40 PM Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Looking at the automake-patches that have accumulated, I saw one to
> improve the error message if dependency tracking fails. Copied below.
>
> It seems generally sensible to me, though I would change the wording a
> little, and there is a spurious "the", so, revising the proposed text:
>
>   AC_MSG_FAILURE([Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments
>   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).])
>
> Confirm/deny? Further suggestions? --thanks, karl.

Thanks. Looks fine.

I prefer to use the short form of bug URLs, e.g., this:
  https://bugs.gnu.org/35848
rather than this:
  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35848

> >From 040f4cc6b8300af4812549d69b07926e5423988a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Libor Bukata <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:31:31 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Improve the error message when the dependency tracking fails

s/when the/when/

> The dependency tracking may fail with a non-intuitive error
> that "Something went wrong ..." if the package expects
> GNU make to process its Makefile.am files and other make
> implementation is used by default (e.g., Solaris make).
> This patch adds a hint to the error message that the user
> may try to specify GNU make command as a configure argument.
>
> Related bug with discussion:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35848
>
> * m4/depout.m4: Added a hint to the error message.

s/Added/Add/



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