This is the mail archive of the java@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the Java project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: bad libjava/libltdl/Makefile.in; automake version?


On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:51:12AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> The version of libjava/libltdl/Makefile.in in the CVS repository
> does not have the @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@ guard to disable the
> dependencies when --disable-maintainer-mode (the default) is
> configured.  So it tries to run automake, which fails because
> it doesn't find the right version of automake.

Damn, this may be a buggy automake 1.7.9 on my Debian system.

> This looks like a serious bug in automake version 1.7.9.
> (libjava/Makefile.in was generated using automake 1.4, which
> seems awfully old.  This is strange, because both were checked
> in by Micahel Koch, though not on the same day.)

libjava/libltdl uses current autoconf/automake. libjava uses automake 2.13
and a patched version of automake 1.4.

> What is the current list of preferred autotools for gcc?
> Should this be listed someone on/from
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/contrib.html ?

The correct place is the HACKING file in my opinion. There is the
patched automake mentioned. This needs to be updated when Thomas
Fitzsimmons commits the autofriends work. ;-)


Michael.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]