Re: getloadavg and LIBOBJDIR

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> There were no objections in 4 days, so I applied this patch.

Hi Bruno,

Four days wasn't long enough, especially,
since I'm hoping to make a "stable" coreutils release soon.

>> 2006-09-17  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>>
>>      * gnulib-tool (func_import, func_create_testdir): Set gl_source_base
>>      at the beginning of the gl_INIT macro.
>>      * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Expect the directory of
>>      getloadavg.c as first argument.
>>      * modules/getloadavg (configure.ac): Pass $gl_source_base to
>>      gl_GETLOADAVG.

That change breaks coreutils' configure.
It happens because of this assignment in configure:

  gl_source_base='.#bootmp/lib'

When configure is run, .#bootmp/lib no longer exists, so the
check for existence of getloadavg.c is wrong:

test -f "$srcdir/$gl_source_base/getloadavg.c" ||
  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: $srcdir/$ac_config_libobj_dir/getloadavg.c 
is missing" >&5

Confusingly, the diagnostic says ./lib/getloadavg.c is missing,
(which isn't true) while the preceding test checks
for ./.#bootmp/lib/getloadavg.c.

Jim