RE: no .deps directory generated

[David Byron]

On Monday, January 8, 2007 @ 11:46a, Ralf Wildenheus wrote:

> * David Byron wrote on Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:25:28PM CET:
> > On Monday, January 8 @ 11:05a, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * David Byron wrote on Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 07:40:02PM CET:
> [...]
> > > > 
> > > > AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile util/Makefile
> > > > util/tests/Makefile:config/cppunit.mk.in:util/tests/Makefile.in
> > > > testmain/Makefile])
> > > 
> > > What's in config/cppunit.mk.in and what in util/tests/Makefile.am?
> > > I'm assuming the latter file exists, otherwise automake would have
> > > no business in util/tests.
> > 
> > I've attached them both.
> 
> Darn, this looks like a regression of 1.10 over 1.9.6, due to the
>   sed 10q
> 
> in m4/depout.m4: because cppunit.mk is longer than 10 lines, it won't
> get to the "generated by automake" line any more.
> 
> Here's a hacky workaround: insert a comment like this near the top of
> cppunit.mk (and do not use it for non-automake substituted files,
> otherwise you need another file, am-fake.mk or so):
>   # do not remove the following line, it helps Automake 1.10
>   # generated by automake.
> 
> Phew.  Do things work then?

I added

# generated by automake

as the first line in config/cppunit.mk.in and now configure generates the
util/tests/.deps directory...

> Could you also try the Automake patch below?

I manually edited share/aclocal-1.10/depout.m4 as in the patch and
util/tests/.deps gets created without having to edit cppunit.mk.in....

Thanks much for the quick fix.

-DB