Re: Automake 1.11.1 glitch?

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Ralf.

On Monday 06 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:39:54PM CEST:
> > Hmm, maybe we can generate a makefile snippet on the fly, to be
> > included by the recursive make.
> 
> Bob, can you try out this patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ralf
> 
> 2010-09-06  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
> 
>       parallel-tests: avoid command-line length limit issue.
>       * lib/am/check.am [%?PARALLEL_TESTS%] (check-TESTS): Pass
>       sanitized TEST_LOGS value as makefile snippet on standard
>       input to $(MAKE), to avoid exceeding the command line limit on
>       w32 (MSYS).
>       Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
> 
> diff --git a/lib/am/check.am b/lib/am/check.am
> index c612b22..39ae9d2 100644
> --- a/lib/am/check.am
> +++ b/lib/am/check.am
> @@ -236,10 +236,12 @@ check-TESTS:
>  ## we rely on .PHONY to work portably.
>       @test -z "$(TEST_SUITE_LOG)" || rm -f $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
>       @list='$(TEST_LOGS)';                                           \
> -     list=`for f in $$list; do                                       \
> -       test .log = $$f || echo $$f;                                  \
> -     done | tr '\012\015' '  '`;                                     \
> -     $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG) TEST_LOGS="$$list"
> +     { echo "TEST_LOGS = ";                                          \
> +       for f in $$list; do                                           \
> +         test .log = $$f || echo $$f;                                \
> +       done;                                                         \
> +     } | { tr '\012\015' '  '; echo; }                               \
> +       | $(MAKE) -f Makefile -f - $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(TEST_SUITE_LOG)
Does this works even if the developer is using, say, GNUmakefile.am instead
of Makefile.am?

Regards,
   Stefano