Re: Requiring Automake 1.16.1 due to Gnulib getloadavg?

[Paul Eggert]

Paul Smith wrote:

> It appears that the target that's failing for me, that you didn't try
> in your test, is "make distclean".

Thanks, that explains it. Yes, "make distclean" fails for me too. I don't see a 
trivial fix so I guess I'll let this sleeping dog lie too. Sorry about the noise.

> As far as I'm aware, GNU make already uses a non-recursive
> configuration of autoconf/automake at least for its own code... that
> is, there's only one Makefile.am at the root.
>
> The lib/Makefile.am is created by gnulib.  I'm not sure how to handle
> that non-recursively (if it's possible).

Coreutils does that via the Gnulib module non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack. The 
coreutils top-level Makefile.am has "include $(top_srcdir)/lib/local.mk" and its 
lib/local.mk includes the file lib/gnulib.mk that is generated by ./bootstrap.