Re: automake 1.4e, 1.4g: Depcomp does not get installed

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On 23 May 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:

> I think this patch fixed the problem:
> 
> 2001-05-17  Tom Tromey  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * m4/depend.m4 (AM_DEPENDENCIES): If depcomp doesn't exist, revert
>       to no dependency tracking.
> 
> I'm guessing you forgot to run aclocal.

 Nope, I have aclocal coded first in RPM spec files, but I take snapshots
at night, so this wasn't included in my copy on May, 17th. 

 This fixes the configure-time error, indeed, but is it correct?  I
believe dependencies should only be controlled by the "no-dependencies"
setting in AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS and thus my fix is correct and your one is
doubtful.  Note a related problem is without my change there is no way to
automatically update depcomp, as it's possible for all other files.

  Maciej

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