Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56624
automake 1.5 fails to build dependency files for Glide3
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:24 EDT
Description of Problem: Trying to build XFree86 with the current automake leads to error messages while building the Glide3 library even after fixing configure.in and friends. This happens: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/CVS/Glide3/swlibs/fxmisc' makefile.autoconf:168: .deps/fx64.Plo: No such file or directory makefile.autoconf:169: .deps/fximg.Plo: No such file or directory makefile.autoconf:170: .deps/fxos.Plo: No such file or directory makefile.autoconf:171: .deps/linutil.Plo: No such file or directory because the following code has been generated: include $(DEPDIR)/fx64.Plo include $(DEPDIR)/fximg.Plo include $(DEPDIR)/fxos.Plo include $(DEPDIR)/linutil.Plo from this automake file: include_HEADERS = 3dfx.h linutil.h noinst_HEADERS = fx64.h fxdll.h fximg.h fxglob.h \ fxos.h fxver.h glob.h noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libfxmisc.la libfxmisc_la_SOURCES = fx64.c fximg.c fxos.c linutil.c (and the depfiles haven't been generated). Trying to invoke depcomp manually (not sure if I figured out the correct parameters): source=swlibs/fxmisc/fx64.c object=swlibs/fxmisc/fx64.lo depmode=gcc3 ./depcomp gcc -c swlibs/fxmisc/fx64.c -o swlibs/fxmisc/fx64.lo -Iswlibs/fxmisc swlibs/fxmisc/.deps/fx64.TPlo: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): automake-1.5-1 autoconf-2.52-4 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the XFree86 source RPM, rpm -bp XFree86.spec 2. cd to the Glide3 subdir, fix up configure.in to do AM_PROG_AS 3. aclocal;automake -a;autoconf;./configure; make -f makefile.autoconf
I believe this is a real, but obscure, automake bug. I notice that the make invocation is "make -f makefile.autoconf" The code that generates the initial dependency files contains this: case $mf in Makefile) dirpart=.;; */Makefile) dirpart=`AS_DIRNAME("$mf")`;; *) continue;; esac Oops -- it skips your case. I'm not entirely sure what the automake fix ought to be, but I'll ask the other developers about it. It probably isn't important to enable dependency tracking when building an RPM, since you'll probably just build it once and discard the build tree. I think disabling this in Makefile.am ought to work. Disabling it via the configure command line might work but I'm not certain. I've filed an automake bug report. I don't know when or whether it will be fixed.
FYI, I've checked in a fix for this to the automake CVS trunk.
Thanks. I added the fix to automake-1.5-2.
The fix seemed to break things, so for the time being it has been backed out.
*** Bug 58207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Glide 3 builds in rawhide now. We're using automake 1.4 however. It is hard coded in the specfile. So if you fix this please let me know so we can try using a newer automake.
moved to automake15 component
The problem still seems to persist in automake-1.6.2.
Glide3 appears to build using rawhide automake; can I close this?
Closing as "CURRENTRELEASE" (Fedora Core 2).