Re: "make dist" calls "autoheader" ? duh...

[Guido Draheim]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> Actually, the first build after each run of aclocal will trigger
> this (in your story that would be `make', not `make dist', so
> maybe I'm commenting something else :)).
> 
sadly, you do :))
auto:
   aclocal && autoconf && autoheader && automake
cross-make.sh auto
configure && make && make dist AUTOHEADER=false
... booom!!


(as a side-note, you know that cross-make.sh from libsdl.org, and
 I just configure newstuff autotools to end up in local/cross-tools)

> 
>  gd> to go a few rounds calling with "make dist AUTOHEADER=false" in old'
>  gd> system mode, may be you can see it too.
> 
> BTW, maybe you will want to use a my-distcheck target that make
> a build with all AUTO* variable to false (like what is done in
> fileutils) to make sure your users won't ever get such an error.
> 
it's no problem if autoheader would simply fail and exit (like it
did before) but what has making me mad that's the almostzero-size
config.h.in that is silently put into the tarball. (Mis)using
the am_maintainer_mode option has proven to be a good path to 
let things work out better. After a couple of tries, I have now
chosen to overwrite with a value that let's ME continue to work
with the project even if I hit again the problem
AUTOHEADER="sleep 99; true ERROR: AUTOHEADER CALLED BUT NO MAINTAINER-MODE

as a side-note:
Actually, I did jump on this problem only while checking why
the rpm-builds did fail, and know what, the rpm-system puts a
whole lot of stuff on top that could be broken then or else. So
it took me a good peek to see it is in the dist-target itself.

rpm: dist $(PACKAGE).spec
    rpm -ta $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz

at the moment I am stuck with *all* project being unable to
cross-compile win32 dlls, again the fault of automake-1.4beef?
I'll check that later with 1.4-p5 (is it 5 now?)...

happy hacking everyone,
but now I'm going to see a bit of the sun out there,
cheers,
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