Re: CVS checkout may not rerun autotools

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paul,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:28:39PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I can reproduce this error.  I suggest the patch below.  OK?
> 
> Yes, thanks, that's good enough for now,

I missed one: config/Makefile.in doesn't depend upon freeze.mk but also
had a white-space-only change.  Fixed as below.

> though we'd like a better solution long-term.

Well, such is the pain of keeping generated files in CVS.  I don't
really know a better solution.  You could forbid white-space-only
changes.  :-)

> > Second failure: datarootdir is apparently empty.  That's weird; it
> > should happen only when `configure' was created with an Autoconf version
> > that is too old (before January 2005).
> 
> Yes, that's undoubtedly what happened to me.  This will continue to be
> a problem for me until the next Autoconf release comes out, since I
> prefer to run the latest stable versions rather than newer,
> bleeding-edge stuff.

Well, there's a reason (more than one, really) I'm pushing for a
release!

Cheers,
Ralf

        * config/Makefile.am: Add comment to force updated Makefile.in.

Index: config/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/config/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 Makefile.am
--- config/Makefile.am  5 Apr 2006 20:55:14 -0000       1.8
+++ config/Makefile.am  10 Apr 2006 20:51:14 -0000
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 ## Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 ## 02110-1301, USA.
 
+# This line added to force a rebuild of Makefile.in.
+
 EXTRA_DIST = $(SPECIFIC_MACROS) $(SPECIFIC_TOOLS) \
              prev-version.txt
 MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = $(GENERIC_TOOLS)