libX11 build failure

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Sep 24 13:37:19 PDT 2009



Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:19:33 -0700
> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
>> The AM_SILENT_RULES macro in automake 1.11 should be setting
>> AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY already.   In my installation it's in
>> /usr/share/aclocal-1.11/silent.m4 :
>>
>> case $enable_silent_rules in
>> yes) AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=0;;
>> no)  AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=1;;
>> *)   AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=m4_if([$1], [yes], [0], [1]);;
>> esac
>> AC_SUBST([AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY])dnl
>>
> 
> hm.. same here... odd... 
> 
> ah, but: 
> my makefile somehow seems to be built by automake-1.10.2
> 
> # Makefile.in generated by automake 1.10.2 from Makefile.am.
> # Makefile.  Generated from Makefile.in by configure.
> 
> crazy... automake --version reports 1.11... maybe a problem with the
> live-ebuild selecting the autotools-versions or something like that...

If it's selecting automake 1.10.2 then the check for AM_SILENT_RULES
being defined should report that it's not and that section of the
Makefile.am should be commented out.   I think we'll need to get
someone who knows automake well and uses gentoo to investigate how
that works in their setup.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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