Re: inscrutable recursion magic

[Bruce Korb]

I decided to see what would happen when I changed:

  man_MANS = autogen.1

into:

  nodit_man_MANS = autogen.1

I got some curious stuff:

> install-man1: $(man1_MANS) $(man_MANS)
>       @$(NORMAL_INSTALL)
>       test -z "$(man1dir)" || $(mkdir_p) "$(DESTDIR)$(man1dir)"
>       @list='$(man1_MANS) $(dist_man1_MANS) $(nodist_man1_MANS)'; \
>       l2='$(man_MANS) $(dist_man_MANS) $(nodist_man_MANS)'; \
>       for i in $$l2; do \

This is curious stuff because there are no definitions for either
"man1_MANS" or "man_MANS", though there is now obviously a definition
for "nodist_man_man" (populating "l2").  Since we now have:

  MANS = $(nodist_man_MANS)
  all-am : ... $(MANS) ....

it gets built, but it doesn't look like "install" is going to work
very well.  I think it will always fire.  Anyway, this fiddling
did not fix the infinite recursion on Solaris and I see no obvious
fix, except dropping back to an earlier automake :-(.  (Short of
distributing "autogen.1" which is directly derivable from the
distribution itself)

$ rsh ${nfsplatform} gmake --version
GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.8.3
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59