Re: [PATCH 0/5] start converting libgloss to non-recursive automake

On Feb  7 07:45, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 07 Feb 2022 12:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Feb  5 00:46, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > This converts the top-level to automake, and then cuts a few subdirs over
> > > to non-recursive automake.  I didn't cut all the subdirs over to automake,
> > > but should be easy to convert more over.
> > > 
> > > Mike Frysinger (5):
> > >   libgloss: convert top level to automake
> > >   libgloss: merge doc into top-level Makefile
> > >   libgloss: merge libgloss into top-level Makefile
> > >   libgloss: merge iq2000 into top-level Makefile
> > >   libgloss: merge bfin into top-level Makefile
> > 
> >  $ autoreconf
> >  configure.ac:46: warning: macro 'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' not found in library
> >  configure.ac:31: warning: macro 'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' not found in library
> >  [...]
> > 
> > Problem?  A dependency to another not yet applied patch?
> 
> this isn't new behavior.  although i understand the mismatch in expectations.
> 
> if you run `autoreconf` in libgloss/ today, you will see these same warnings.
> it's because the only way to have aclocal search extra dirs for m4 macros is
> either pass the -I flags to autoreconf directly, or have a Makefile.am with
> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS set in it (which autoreconf extracts and passes to aclocal).
> 
> w/out automake, ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS doesn't work, so you have to add all the -I
> flags yourself with absolute paths:
> $ autoreconf -I $PWD -I $PWD/.. -I $PWD/../config
> 
> yes, i'm converting the top-level to automake, so the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS are
> picked up from there, but that's only the top-level.  autoreconf will go
> into each subdir and run autoreconf in there, and that's where these are
> coming from.  once all the subdirs convert over to automake, then you can
> go back to running plain `autoreconf` and it'll all just work for you.
> 
> if you run `autoreconf -v`, it's a little more obvious that it's coming
> from the subdirs as it'll show:
> autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: adding subdirectory aarch64 to autoreconf
> autoreconf-2.69: Entering directory `aarch64'
> autoreconf-2.69: running: aclocal
> configure.ac:46: warning: macro 'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' not found in library
> -mike

Ok, thanks for this and your other reply.  GTG.


Corinna