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Re: Problems rebuilding libffi/Makefile.in
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: Problems rebuilding libffi/Makefile.in
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Mar 2001 18:06:50 -0700
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <3ABEBA3C.2DCB667B@albatross.co.nz>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:
Bryce> After rebuilding libffi's Makefile.am and configure, I'm
Bryce> getting this build error:
Bryce> Any ideas?
Yes -- libffi's Makefile setup is completely broken. When written
libffi used an automake snapshot. Now that snapshot is long
forgotten. Nobody knows which one it was.
I personally edit libffi Makefile.in by hand whenever I need to update
it. Obviously, this is evil, but fixing the problem has never made it
sufficiently far up my list.
One could plausibly argue that this horrifying state was brought about
by the extreme length of the automake release cycle. One wouldn't be
entirely wrong.
I think anything that makes this better is ok.
Tom