bug#12372: arbitrary suffix sources are not added to the tags

[Юрий Пухальский]

Ok, nice to hear:)
Thank you for your effort!

PS. I've started the ticket at Autstin about chain rules and the POSIX
standard. We'll see what they tell.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Stefano Lattarini
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/07/2012 01:44 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> [Re-adding the list, please keep it in the loop in future answers]
>>
>> On 09/07/2012 01:16 PM, Юрий Пухальский wrote:
>>> Ok, got it.
>>>
>>> The automake version i've tried is 1.12.3, the latest available
>>> from the site.
>>>
>>> If there is .pc.lo rule, .pc don't get into the tags and for .pc-only
>>> sourced libraries nothing gets to the tags.
>>> But if i add .c file to the sources, the target is generated and all
>>> the sources go there alongside this .c file.
>>>
>>> If there is no .pc.lo rule, .pc go to the tags regardless whether
>>> there is .c file with them or not.
>>>
>>> The makefile to play is like this:
>>>
>>> SUFFIXES = .pc
>>> .pc.lo:
>>>         touch $*.lo
>>> noinst_LTLIBRARIES=libfoo.la
>>> libfoo_la_SOURCES=foo.pc # bar.c
>>>
>> I'll try to get a better look this evening or tomorrow.
>>
> OK, with your new information, I can reproduce the bug in the maint
> branch of Automake  But luckily, the overhauling of tags support done
> in master has fixed it there already, so the bug will be gone in 1.13.
> Thus I'm not reopening this ticket.
>
> Patches exposing the bug in maint and documenting its fixing in master
> (with a NEWS entry) will follow shorty.
>
> Thanks,
>   Stefano



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