Re: conf/Makefile.common fails with automake 1.11.2 in autogen.sh step

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi,

 Will this continue to work with older automake as well?

 --S

Quoting Keshav P R, who wrote the following on Wed, 28 Dec 2011:

> Hi,
>    grub2-bzr r3732 fails to compile in Archlinux x86_64 with automake
> 1.11.2 due to upstream change
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?h=maint&id=9ca632642b006ac6b0fc4ce0ae5b34023faa8cbf.
>
> Due to this change pkglib_{DATA,SCRIPTS} is invalid. It needs to be
> pkgdata_{DATA_SCRIPTS} due to which grub2 modules are not longer installed
> at /usr/lib/grub but at /usr/share/grub. I added --datadir=/usr/lib and
> --datarootdir=/usr/share to ./configure to workaround this problem, but
> this is a dirty hack.
>
> Since this seems to be a well discussed change among automake devs, I don't
> think they might revert back. Therefore grub2 need to use a valid prerix
> for DATA and SCRIPTS. I have attached the patch I have used (in combination
> with --datadir configure option). Please fix this. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav