Re: Problem finding TPO dependency file

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello John,

* John Ling wrote on Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:43:56PM CEST:
> 
> I am running on an IBM P690 SMP PowerPC64 running Linux 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.
> 
> The dependency style selected during configure was gcc3 (see output of 
> configure below).  There are no other errors prior to the one I sent.  I 
> have tested with 1.9.6 and the problem also shows up with that version 
> of automake.  The latest automake and aclocal version that work is 
> 1.8.5.

More questions:

Can you make the package, as it exposes the breakage with 1.9.6,
available somehow?  Either by putting it up on a website somewhere
temporarily, or by sending a tarball to me (off-list, please)?

Which sed do you use?
  sed --version

should answer that, if it's GNU sed.

Do you have the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT set?

> >>Using automake 1.9.1 and higher, I get the following error below.  I do 
> >>not get this error if I switch to automake 1.8.5.  So what is the change 
> >>between 1.8.5 and 1.9.1 that causes it to be unable to generate this TPO 
> >>file?  What do I have to do to resolve this problem?
> >>
> >>shared/cpp/src/fasta/Fasta.cpp:192: fatal error: opening dependency file 
> >>shared/cpp/src/fasta/.deps/Fasta.Tpo: No such file or directory
> >>compilation terminated.

This error message comes from g++.  Most likely the directory
  shared/cpp/src/fasta/.deps

was not created in your build tree.  Can you confirm that after running
configure, the directory does not exist?  It should exist, and if this
is a new build tree, then it should contain a file Fasta.Plo that
contains a `# dummy' line.  If the directory does exist, is it maybe
unwritable by you for some weird reason unknown to me?

The issue seems to be with Automake's _AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS
macro.

If you can't make the package available, can you post the relevant
Makefile.am parts that are responsible for dealing with Fasta.cpp?

Thanks,
Ralf