Re: automake dependencies, missing *.Plo files

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>>   <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 >> Wow.  Did you changed something in your configure.in and
 >> Makefile.am's during this jump?

 > No, we changed nothing. Should we ?

Not necessarily.  These tools should be backward compatible
(althought they sometime failed to).

[...]

 > In the whole project directory (and all subdirectories) you
 > find neither a *.P* file nor a .deps directory.

Odd.

[...]

 >> To summarize
 >> 
 >> % cd obj/gcc_2.95.3-release-GL; ../../configure --youroptions
 >> 
 >> does not create some (or all?) of the .deps/*.P* files, while 
 >> 
 >> % ./configure --youroptions
 >> 
 >> successfully creates everything required.  Is this correct?

 > No. We wrote an autoconf macro to rerun configure
 > automatically in obj/gcc_2.95.3-release-GL during a configure
 > run which is started in the project root directory. The users
 > like this. So the only command you have to start is
 > ./configure in the project root directory.

Any chance we can see this macro?  Actually I'd like to know the
exact sequence of commands which are being run.  From your
description I understand something more or less like this:

if test x"$srcdir" = x'.'; then
  for comp in gcc_2.95.3 ...; do
    for rel in release debug ...; do
      for lib in GL mesa ...; do
        dir=$comp-$rel-$lib
        mkdir -p obj/$dir 
        (cd obj/$dir &&
        ../../configure --with-comp=$comp --with-rel=$rel --with-lib=$lib)
      done
    done
  done
  exit
fi

Also, now I don't really undestand what you meant with the
following:

 >>> If I try to build the software without this extra object
 >>> directory the .deps directories are created.

Is this a build with that macro disabled?

[...]

 >> % rm -Rf kernel/framework/.deps
 >> % ./config.status kernel/framework/Makefile depfiles

 > On my system, this does absolutely nothing.

Please, send the output of

  % ./config.status --help

and

  % rm -Rf kernel/framework/.deps
  % sh -x ./config.status kernel/framework/Makefile depfiles

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz