[Openchrome-users] automake 1.4 and man/Makefile.am

[Michael Moerz]

automake 1.4 is still very widely used.

the current svn trunk has got a man/Makefile.am that breaks compilation 
with automake1.4 with following error:

 ./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
autoreconf: `aclocal.m4' is unchanged
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy
libtoolize: `config.guess' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `config.sub' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
libtoolize: `ltmain.sh' exists: use `--force' to overwrite
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy
unichrome/Makefile.am:33: via_drv_la_SOURCES defined both conditionally 
and unc
nditionally
unichrome/Makefile.am:26: EXTRA_DIST defined both conditionally and 
uncondition
lly
automake: unichrome/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support 
EXTRA_DIST
eing defined conditionally
automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support 
libviaXvMC_la
LDFLAGS being defined conditionally
automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support 
libviaXvMCPro
la_LDFLAGS being defined conditionally
automake: libxvmc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support 
EXTRA_DIST be
ng defined conditionally
man/Makefile.am:30: invalid unused variable name: `driverman_SOURCES'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1


the supplied svn diff patch removes the problem by renaming the 
variable, since _SOURCES variables are identified by automake as 
variables defining lists of files that have to be compiled in one way or 
the other.

I suppose that is the quickest fix to that problem, an other solution 
would be to remove the substitution code from the Makefile.am and 
utilizing Automakes capabilities to do the substitutions. Since that 
would involve a lot of work and could likely break things, I'd rather 
suggest not to follow it.

Since automake1.4 still creates a batch of errors and warnings, i'd be 
curious to hear about people being able to compile openchrome 
successfully with 1.4 .

--
kind regards,
Natoka
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