Re: FAIL: demo-make.test

[edward]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; "Patrick Welche" <address@hidden>;
<address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: FAIL: demo-make.test


> On Monday 12 March 2001  7:08 pm, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > Using source updated Mar 12 11:42 GMT on NetBSD-1.5S/i386 I have a few
> > failed tests. In directory tests running demo-conf.test then
demo-make.test
> > gives...
> >
> > creating hell
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2   -o hell.static -static
main.o
> > libhello.la gcc -g -O2 -o hell.static main.o  ./.libs/libhello.a -lm
> > gmake: *** No rule to make target `helldl', needed by `all-am'.  Stop.

this is due to an automake limitation in cvs (i don't know about the
released automake). akim demaille reports a number of people have solved
this already. my particular fix (which i call the partially specified
conditional target patch) is mentioned here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2001-03/msg00162.html

and even here:

http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2001-March/004426.html

> >
> >
> > In demo/Makefile:
> >
> > BUILD_helldl = helldl
> > bin_PROGRAMS = hell hell.static $(BUILD_helldl)
> > helldl_SOURCES = dlmain.c
> > helldl_LDFLAGS = -export-dynamic -dlpreopen libhello.la
> > helldl_DEPENDENCIES = libhello.la
> >
> > etc, so I don't really see why...
> >
> > Is it worth trying the multi-language-branch instead?
>
> If you can help us figure this out, it will save us making the next
release
> with the bug in it.
>
> I recommend trying the test suite again after a `make maintainer-clean'
and
> rebootstrapping the tree -- this sometimes fixes things for me.
>
> Are you using CVS automake by any chance?  HEAD libtool has had a lot of
> testing with automake-1.4, perhaps there is a transitory bug in automake?
> Either way, an examination of Makefile,in might shed some light on the
matter.
>
> Cheers,
> Gary.
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cheers,
edward