[PATCH libevdev] build: set aux-dir

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 03:09:49PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:36:19AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:53:43PM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> > > On 13-11-26 07:54 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > > follow-up: this is almost certainly an automake bug* introduced in 1.14. Bisected it
> > > > down to 34001a987a6defdb70f6f3c17cce9d9c665fe6e8  
> > > >     compile: use 'compile' script when "-c -o" is used with losing compilers
> > > >
> > > > Specifically, the culprit is (in our case) AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. If that
> > > > is moved below AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, it works again.
> > > >
> > > > I've filed a bug upstream here:
> > > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15981
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >    Peter
> > > >
> > > > * or we don't call AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS correctly, but it used to work,
> > > > so...
> > > Thanks for the update. I checked with other modules and the resulting
> > > configure script, and you can call AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS after AM
> > > _INIT_AUTOMAKE so as long it is called before
> > > AC_PROG_CC and LT_INIT.
> > 
> > I'll wait a bit whether I hear about the bug from the upstream developers
> > before we shuffle anything around here. For now, david can reshuffle this
> > locally to fix it, if there's been no reply in a week or so we can swap it
> > then.
> 
> Haven't heard anything from upstream, so I've pushed david's original patch
> now with a link to the bug report. 

just for the archives, the automake bug has now been fixed, see 
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15981

Cheers,
   Peter