Re: Texino build problem

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

>> make[3]: Entering directory `/pooma/mitchell/egcs/objdir/texinfo/lib'
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target `-c', needed by `all'.  Stop.

>> all: Makefile $(LIBRARIES) $(DATA)
>> DATA =  $(INSTALL_DATA)
>> INSTALL_DATA = ${INSTALL} -m 644
>> INSTALL = ../../../texinfo/../install-sh -c

Raja> One fix would be (I haven't tested this) to either rename
Raja> EGCS_PROG_INSTALL in acinclude.m4 to AC_PROG_INSTALL, or say
Raja> 	AC_DEFINE([AC_PROG_INSTALL],[EGCS_PROG_INSTALL])
Raja> in acinclude.m4.


Ian Taylor forwarded me this message.  Suspected automake bugs should
be sent to <automake-bugs@gnu.org>, since I don't read the egcs list.

The proposed fix won't work.

The story is: automake magically knows about INSTALL_DATA, and doesn't
expect to see it defined by configure.  If it is, then automake gets
confused and thinks that `INSTALL_DATA' is a user-defined `_DATA'
variable.  Even if EGCS_PROG_INSTALL is renamed, automake will
probably still discover the `AC_SUBST(INSTALL_DATA)' -- which is what
is really causing the problem.


Could somebody tell me why EGCS_PROG_INSTALL is needed?  What does it
do?


The appended patch should fix the problem.  I added it and a test case
to my automake sources.

Tom

Index: automake.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/tromey/gnu/CVSROOT/automake/automake.in,v
retrieving revision 1.555
diff -u -r1.555 automake.in
--- automake.in	1998/04/01 04:10:39	1.555
+++ automake.in	1998/04/03 20:08:16
@@ -4273,7 +4273,8 @@
 	# FIXME.
 	if (/$AC_SUBST_PATTERN/o
 	    && $1 ne 'ANSI2KNR'
-	    && $1 ne 'INSTALL_SCRIPT')
+	    && $1 ne 'INSTALL_SCRIPT'
+	    && $1 ne 'INSTALL_DATA')
 	{
 	    $configure_vars{$1} = 1;
 	}