Re: automake 1.7.1 dependency tracking regression?

[David Relson]

At 12:56 PM 12/2/02, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:

> >>> "David" == David Relson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  David> Alexandre,
>  David> The proposed documentation is well written and easy to understand.
>  David> The content is excellent.  I have a few corrections and suggestions.
>
> Thank you.  Here is the documentation I'm checking in.  It will
> be in Automake 1.7.2 (due soon).
>
> I've moved the "generate bindir.h from configure" idea at the
> begining of the Example, not before, because I think it's
> specific to this example (How to #define bindir is an Autoconf
> FAQ) and not appliable to all $(BUILT_SOURCES) uses.

You are right.  That sentence _is_ part of the example.

>    It should be clearer now why building `bindir.h' from `configure' is
> seducing for this example: `bindir.h' will exist before you build any
> target, hence will not cause any dependency issue.

The word "seducing" is wrong here.  As the meaning of the sentence is not 
clear to me, I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternative.  Perhaps 
"tempting" would work.

By the way, reading this explained why "make" and "make check" would work 
fine, but "make target" would complain about a missing header file.

Thanks :-)

David