Re: automake/492: Compilation of assembler files with subdir-objects

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 00:05 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:48:12AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:15 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:09:10AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=automake&pr=492
> 
> > > We were talking about the issue why Automake doesn't emit proper rules
> > > for compiling (pre processed) Assembler files (the .S ones) when using
> > > `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([subdir-objects])'.
> > >
> > > When using code file `libfoo_a_SOURCES = somewhere/a.S', Automake
> > > currently assembles `somewhere/a.S' and puts `a.o' into the current
> > > directory (as opposed to `somewhere/a.o'), but when creating `libfoo.a'
> > > it wants to add `somewhere/a.o', which will then obviously fail.
> >
> > This is a known issue (reported > 2 years ago) and supposed to be fixed
> > in automake-cvs (me and somebody else contributed patches to implement
> > this behavior)
> 
> Indeed I can confirm that this isn't a problem anymore with the cvs
> version of Automake.  Someone might close this bug report now.
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately so far, there had not been a new automake release since
> > then.
> 
> Is there already an estimation possible when this will happen?

I wish I know that, at least I am eagerly waiting for it, because we
(rtems.org) can't avoid to ship a patched/hacked version of automake,
exactly because of this problem :(

Ralf