Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH 0/5] build: refactoring and preparations for Automake-NG

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 20/08/2012 21:56, Stefano Lattarini ha scritto:
> After these changes, the Smalltalk build system still works with
> mainline Automake (and only with it), but will be much easier to
> modify to convert it to Automake-NG.

Can you send a "patch 6" with the remaining changes?

I'm a bit scared of this:

* libgst/Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/match.stamp): No need to specify
the '$(srcdir)/' explicitly, since the Smalltalk build system is
assuming GNU make anyway (it was once necessary to avoid a bug
with FreeBSD VPATH handling); so rename this target simply ...
(match.stamp): ... like this. Also, depend on 'genbc$(EXEEXT)',
rather than calling '$(MAKE)' recursively in the recipe to build
it.  Not only is this more efficient, it also avoid possible
hanging of "make all" in the 'libgist' subdir when Automake-NG
is used to bootstrap the Smalltalk build system.

Why should it hang "make all"?  Isn't it a bug in Automake-NG?

Paolo