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Re: automake/492: Compilation of assembler files with subdir-objects
From: |
Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: |
Re: automake/492: Compilation of assembler files with subdir-objects |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:48:12 +0200 |
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:15 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> [Cced to <address@hidden> and <address@hidden> for further
> discussion. Which list is appropriate here?]
automake, is the correct list. This is an automake issue.
>
> Hello!
>
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:09:10AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=automake&pr=492
>
> It's been some time, but this issue is still outstanding and I need to
> get this functionality implemented. However, I still didn't look up the
> Automake interals to actually help resolve that issue properly.
>
> We were talking about the issue why Automake doesn't emit proper rules
> for compiling (pre processed) Assembler files (the .S ones) when using
> `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])'.
>
> When using code file `libfoo_a_SOURCES = somewhere/a.S', Automake
> currently assembles `somewhere/a.S' and puts `a.o' into the current
> directory (as opposed to `somewhere/a.o'), but when creating `libfoo.a'
> it wants to add `somewhere/a.o', which will then obviously fail.
This is a known issue (reported > 2 years ago) and supposed to be fixed
in automake-cvs (me and somebody else contributed patches to implement
this behavior)
Unfortunately so far, there had not been a new automake release since
then.
Ralf