Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Oct-2009, Thomas Treichl wrote:

| on my Mac OS X 10.4 system I currently have two problems (sources still 
| compiling this night, don't know if there are further problems)... The first 
| thing is that in all subdirectories of libcruft eg. libcruft/amos etc. there 
| don't exist ".deps" directories and they also cannot be build on my system (I 
| currently have no idea what causes this or which command is doing this). The 
| error looks like this (without any further information about which command 
calls 
| "cp" or such)
| 
|    Making all in libcruft
|    cp: illegal option -- d
|    usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
|           cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory
|    mv: rename amos/#inst.16473# to amos/.deps: No such file or directory
|    /bin/sh: line 1: amos/.deps/.dirstamp: No such file or directory
|    make[2]: *** [amos/.deps/.dirstamp] Error 1
|    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
|    make: *** [all] Error 2
| 
| If I create all ".deps" directories by hand in all subdirectories of libcruft 
| then I also can make libcruft.

I suspect a libtool or automake problem.  What versions do you have?

jwe