Subject: Re: [Commit]: automake-1.5 fixes
From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 02:43:15 CST
> includes.mk is fixed to generate a .mm to .lo compilation rule. This is
> needed at least by automake-1.5, and perhaps by earlier versions too.
> Symptoms were a strange perl error about an undefined target_hook method.
There's a better fix than this. When this error triggers it reports a
line-number in automake. Go there and you'll see "$lang->something()",
but this should be "if ($lang) $lang->something()" - or whatever the
correct perl should be.
This has been fixed in automake-1.5b, and GNUmakefile is recognized by
automake-1.5d.
Setting a .mm.lo: rule is not advised:
1. these are automake bugs and AbiWord shouldn't need to compensate. People
with automake-1.5 vanilla, please get automake-1.5d from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake
(note that this will require autoconf-2.52).
2. I'll soon be wanting to use (or try to, anyway) libtool to make
libAbiWord.la, for cocoa as well as unix builds, so the .mm.lo: rule
will have to be removed anyway.
Regards, Frank
ps.
In fact, I have been having problems with libAbiWord.la and automake<1.5,
so I may prefer that we ditch compatibility with old versions and support
only autoconf-2.54 & automake-1.6 once they appear (and if they work).
Francis James Franklin
F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and
wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.
--- Philip Roth
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