Re: GNU Automake 1.10.1 released

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Tim,

* Tim Rice wrote on Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 06:57:59PM CET:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> > I'm pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.10.1.
> 
> Any reason this never made it in?
>      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2005-10/msg00016.html

Dunno, don't remember seeing that before.  Let's take a look:

| --- automake-1.9.6/lib/am/subdirs.am.old        2005-05-14 13:21:06.000000000 
-0700
| +++ automake-1.9.6/lib/am/subdirs.am    2005-10-27 21:04:01.460314004 -0700
| @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
|         esac; \
|         rev=''; for subdir in $$list; do \
|           if test "$$subdir" = "."; then :; else \
| -           rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
| +           test -d "$$subdir"  &&  rev="$$subdir $$rev"; \
|           fi; \
|         done; \
|  ## Always do `.' last.

0) It needs a  s/  [ ]*/ /g.

1) With some BSD make's,
     test $CONDITION && $ACTION 

   makes `make' stop when the condition is false.  Solution is to use
     test ! $CONDITION || $ACTION

2) If the above is applied, a 
     make clean

   will not fail if some subdirectories are not present (though a
   subsequent `make all' will).  I'm not sure if this is a problem;
   I certainly don't think subdirectories get lost all that often,
   but I have a habit of using `make clean' after $vcs update and
   similar operations to find out if everything is still ok.

Have you encountered this in packages other than Libtool?  Asking
because Libtool HEAD has this fixed.

Cheers, and thanks,
Ralf