Bug 240202

Summary:	Elfutils doesn't compile with automake 1.10
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nurdin Premji <npremji>
Component:	elfutils	Assignee:	Roland McGrath <roland>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
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Fixed In Version:	0.128-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Nurdin Premji 2007-05-15 19:06:12 UTC

Description of problem:
automake 1.10 complains when trying to build elfutils.

gives error message:

backends/Makefile.am 27 shell pwd: non-POSIX variable name (probably a GNU make
extension). %-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
....

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
elfutils 0.127

How reproducible:
always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to compile elfutils on fedora 7 rawhide.
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Actual results:
Above error.

Expected results:
automake succeed.

Additional info:
changing configure.ac AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE strictness from gnits to foreign fixes this.

Comment 1 Roland McGrath 2007-05-16 20:36:01 UTC

I fixed this upstream (added -Wno-portability).

Comment 2 Roland McGrath 2007-06-08 21:21:57 UTC

Fixed in 0.128