Re: problem with xmldocs.make with new automake

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

John Fleck wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:58:59AM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I ran into some troubles with your xmldocs.make infrastructure with 
> > automakes 1.6.  New automake actually processes include statements 
> > itself, and includes the contents (so the includes actually get 
> > processed as automake input).  Unfortunately there is a bug in this 
> > code, which trips up on this section:
> >  $(docname).xml: $(entities)
> >          -ourdir=`pwd`;  \
> >          cd $(srcdir);   \
> >          cp $(entities) $$ourdir
> >
> > It trips up on the line with the equals sign, and treats it as a 
> > variable definition (and reorders it out of the rule).  The bug has been 
> > reported to the automake guys:
> >  
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view+audit-trail&database=automake&pr=308
>
> Is there a fix we need to make to xmldocs.make to work around this?
Damn.  Did a little more investigation, and it looks like it isn't an 
automake bug, but a problem in the xmldocs.make file afterall.

The problem occurred in the following rule:
 $(docname).xml: $(entities)
         -ourdir=`pwd`;  \
         cd $(srcdir);   \
         cp $(entities) $$ourdir

I didn't notice it at first, but you seem to have used 8 spaces to 
indent the commands, rather than a tab.  Changing to use spaces makes 
the problem go away (if it worked previously, then it was a fluke ...). 
I don't know where all the copies of this file are in CVS, so I will 
leave it up to you.

James.

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