bug#69908: dist-no-built-sources vs. no-dist-built-sources vs. dist-built-sources

[Jens Geyer]

Hi Karl,

> Can you please send an example tree that shows the failure?

I modified the existing testscript slightly so I can get a view into both configure.ac and Makefile files.

https://gist.github.com/Jens-G/dc9e3fc89d10d1dcf27f289c7e8d5fc8

The output I got from this and dist-no-built-sources.log is rather interesting. As it looks, the test is indeed broken from the beginning.

1. Since the tests are run in the specified order, "no-built-sources" first followed by "dist-built-sources", the section that modifies AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is run only once, in the first. Consequently, the only change in the second round is that another AC_OUTPUT line is added at the end - other than that configure.ac looks absolutely identical in both cases:

   AC_INIT([dist-no-built-sources], [1.0])
   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-built-sources])
   AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
   AC_OUTPUT
   AC_OUTPUT    <<<< this is added in round 2

2. Even if we fix the script so that it properly resets AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in the second round, grepping the generated Makefile for "BUILT_SOURCES" still gives the exact same output in both cases, which is also unexpected:

   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dist-built-sources])
   BUILT_SOURCES = x.c
   all: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
   distdir: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
   check: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
   install: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
   install-exec: $(BUILT_SOURCES)
       -$(am__rm_f) $(BUILT_SOURCES)

Have fun,

JensG