Re: Automake 1.16.1: problem with non-gnu make and gnulib

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Assaf Gordon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've encountered a problem where a released tarball (of 'make dist')
> generated by Automake-1.16.1 fails to build with non-gnu make (e.g.
> "bmake" on BSDs).
> The exact same project and 'make dist' with automake-1.15 builds fine.
>
> It has something to do with non-recursive makefile structure common
> to some gnu projects.

The problem may very well have to do with parts obtained from gnulib 
or an implementation artifact from the template Makefiles.

I did a test build of GraphicsMagick using Illumos '/usr/bin/make' 
under OmniOSce and under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using 'bmake'.  The test 
builds succeeded (even parallel builds), including the test suite. 
GraphicsMagick uses a non-recursive build, but does not depend on 
gnulib or 'po' files.

Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
Public Key,     http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt