On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Dave wrote:

> The Very Big Problem I've run into is that I can't do a "make clean" or
> "make distclean" using BSD's make.  Rather than make recursing through the

Oops, I should have posted a test case.  Following is the simplest source
tree I could think of that demonstrates the problem.

Run generate.sh to set things up and then run configure.  Typing "make"
with no parameters will cause src/hello.c to be compiled to hello.  Typing
"make clean" or "make distclean" causes:

*** Error code 1

Stop.


Here's the tree:


#!/bin/sh

mkdir badclean
cd badclean
mkdir src

cat << EOF > src/hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){printf("Hello World!\n");}
EOF

cat << EOF > src/Makefile.am
bin_PROGRAMS = hello
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
hello_SOURCES = hello.c
EOF

cat << EOF > configure.in
AC_INIT(src/hello.c)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello, 1.0)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/Makefile)
EOF

cat << EOF > Makefile.am
SUBDIRS = src
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
EOF

cat << EOF > generate.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Run this to regenerate configure and Makefile.in and add the usual files 
# they want to see.
#
aclocal ; autoheader ; autoconf ; automake --add-missing --foreign
EOF
chmod 755 generate.sh



-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu