Re: library rebuilt after "make check"

[Vincent Lefevre]

[Added Paul to Cc, there's something for you.]

On 2009-09-19 09:29:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Thanks.  Please fix the wording on
> <https://gforge.inria.fr/scm/?group_id=136> to state that, for checking
> out the project source code repo, one only needs .../svn/mpfr/trunk, and
> not the command listed which also checks out www pages, old tarballs,
> branches, tags, and all.

Unfortunately this is not possible (a Gforge limitation). All that
I could obtain from the admins is the possibility to have an
additional message at the end. I've just done that, but this
is not very visible. :(

> Notes to the sources:
> 
> Please use the patch below to also let non-GNU make see the dependency
> on the libmpfr.la file of the programs (so they are relinked if the
> library is updated).  Non-GNU make don't identify ./FILE with FILE.

Thanks. Done in both the trunk and the 2.4 branch.

> What is LOADLIBES in tests/Makefile.am used for?

r3206 | zimmerma | 2005-01-21 13:20:54 +0100 (Fri, 21 Jan 2005) | 2 lines

added LOADLIBES=...

Paul?

> Please line-wrap libmpfr_la_SOURCES, you're over 2K already which is the
> limit for some vendor grep that then cut silently (the build system
> might use grep on Makefile.am).  I don't think Darwin is in the boat
> with this issue, it's definitely not on the 8.11.0 I've just tried.

Done. Thanks for the information.

> BTW, do you still have a complete log of the first 'make'?

Unfortunately no (BTW, I wish log files would be generated by default).

> Was set_flt.lo even compiled at all the first time?

I don't know (not possible to see).

> Was automake rerun at that time?

It was rerun at the beginning at least.

> Is this a reproducible issue?

I don't know yet, but this is the first time I have such a problem
though I use this machine very often to develop MPFR.

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