Re: help, automake generated a buggy Makefile?

[Steven Woody]

On 10/15/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Steven,
>
> * Steven Woody wrote on Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:51:45AM CEST:
> >
> >     AC_INIT( [ motconv ], [ 0.1 ], [ address@hidden ] )
> >     AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE( [ -Wall -Werror foreign ] )
> >     AC_PROG_RANLIB
> >     AC_PROG_CXX
> >     AC_PROG_INSTALL
> >     AC_LANG_PUSH([C++])
> >     AC_CHECK_HEADERS([limits])
> >     AC_LANG_POP
> >     AC_CONFIG_HEADER( configure.h )
> >     AC_CONFIG_FILES( [ Makefile test/Makefile ])
> >     AC_OUTPUT
>
> Please drop all the trailing white space, it makes a difference.  That
> is, you should write at most
>   AC_INIT([motconv], [0.1], address@hidden)
>
> because right now, the name of your package is " motconv " with version
> " 0.1 ", and so on, and that will lead to subtle issues later.  They
> don't have to do with the issue you reported, though.
>
> For that, I can only test it myself later.  For now, please post the
> output of  "grep -C2 TESTS Makefile.in" of the Makefile.in from which
> AllTests.exe is built, thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

thanks. below are output of grep -C2 TESTS on Makefile.in,

~/motconv/trunk/test$  grep -C2 TESTS Makefile.in
sysconfdir = @sysconfdir@
target_alias = @target_alias@
TESTS = AllTests
AllTests_SOURCES = \
        AllTests.cpp
--
        -rm -f TAGS ID GTAGS GRTAGS GSYMS GPATH tags

check-TESTS: $(TESTS)
        @failed=0; all=0; xfail=0; xpass=0; skip=0; \
        srcdir=$(srcdir); export srcdir; \
        list='$(TESTS)'; \
        if test -n "$$list"; then \
          for tst in $$list; do \
--
            elif test -f $$tst; then dir=; \
            else dir="$(srcdir)/"; fi; \
            if $(TESTS_ENVIRONMENT) $${dir}$$tst; then \
              all=`expr $$all + 1`; \
              case " $(XFAIL_TESTS) " in \
              *" $$tst "*) \
                xpass=`expr $$xpass + 1`; \
--
            elif test $$? -ne 77; then \
              all=`expr $$all + 1`; \
              case " $(XFAIL_TESTS) " in \
              *" $$tst "*) \
                xfail=`expr $$xfail + 1`; \
--
check-am: all-am
        $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $(check_PROGRAMS)
        $(MAKE) $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS
check: check-am
all-am: Makefile
--
uninstall-am: uninstall-info-am

.PHONY: CTAGS GTAGS all all-am check check-TESTS check-am clean \
        clean-checkPROGRAMS clean-generic ctags distclean \
        distclean-compile distclean-generic distclean-local \