Re: automake/535: Extract correct man section from files in MAN_MANS

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Erm, I've already done all that in the patch that I posted; and I have
> applied to master.  So there is nothing left to do on this topic, except
> to argue (if you want) that this should be fixed in branch-1-10.  :-)

Hello Ralf,

not really, since there is a reasonable workaround.

BTW: any idea about the schedule for for 1-11?

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There is, however, a completely different problem.

I am using Automake together with an m4/ directory, and my top-level
Makefile.am starts with 'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4'. Consequently the
generated aclocal.m4 ends with several 'm4_include([m4/xxx.m4])'s.

The problem is, that when any of these m4/*.m4 files is changed (and
maintainermode is enabled explicitly or by default), then 'make' runs
aclocal but doesn't update aclocal.m4 because that remains the same.  Thus
aclocal is run again and again, quite inconvenient.

IMHO a better alternative would be to touch aclocal.m4 and consequently run
configure and automake once, but never again until some other files are
changed.

I found the present behaviour fairly annoying and would prefer if it could
be changed as indicated above.  However, I am not quite sure how that would
be done best: in aclocal or in the rule generated by autmoake?

Regards,
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>