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automake-1.11.4 regression

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius <at> rtems.org>
Cc: 11323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, GNU Automake mailing list <automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#11323: automake-1.11.4 regression
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:26:53 +0200

On 04/24/2012 11:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> Let me elaborate. previously it was possible to do something of this kind:
> 
> if FEATURE0
> mystatedir = $(pkglocalstatedir)
> mystate_DATA =
> 
> if FEATURE01
> mystate_DATA += xxx
> endif
> if FEATURE02
> mystate_DATA += yyy
> endif
> endif
>
To obtain what exactly?  I can't understand your use case if you don't
explain me what you expect to obtain from the given input ...

> Now you are forcing devs to manually add rules to achieve the same effect.
>
Which effect?

> Worse, if automake on packages which have not been manually added such
> manually written rules, these package end up broken (e.g with build
> errors in Linux distro-buildsystems).
>
New versions of these package should adapt to the new automake behaviour
once (anf if) they upgrade from automake < 1.11.4 to automake >= 1.11.4.
And if you are re-bootstrapping an older version of these package (after
you've applied distro-specific patches I guess), you should be prepared
to use the same autotools versions they used in the corresponding release
tarball.

Regards,
  Stefano

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