Re: bug#19108: bad error messages in dist targets, automake 1.14.1

Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/19/2014 11:37 AM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
>> On 19 Dec 2014, at 10:12, Stefano Lattarini <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> severity 19108 minor
>> close 19108
>> thanks
>>
>>> On 11/19/2014 05:40 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>>> Hi. I'm trying to upgrade to automake 1.14.1, and I see this:
>>>
>>> @@ -993,10 +993,16 @@ dist-xz: distdir
>>>       $(am__post_remove_distdir)
>>>
>>>   dist-tarZ: distdir
>>> +    @echo WARNING: "Support for shar distribution archives is" \
>>> +                   "deprecated." >&2
>>> +    @echo WARNING: "It will be removed altogether in Automake 2.0" >&2
>>>       tardir=$(distdir) && $(am__tar) | compress -c >$(distdir).tar.Z
>>>       $(am__post_remove_distdir)
>>>
>>>   dist-shar: distdir
>>> +    @echo WARNING: "Support for distribution archives compressed with" \
>>> +               "legacy program 'compress' is deprecated." >&2
>>> +    @echo WARNING: "It will be removed altogether in Automake 2.0" >&2
>>>       shar $(distdir) | GZIP=$(GZIP_ENV) gzip -c >$(distdir).shar.gz
>>>       $(am__post_remove_distdir)
>>>
>>>
>>> The error messages are associated with the wrong targets.
>>>
>>> I thought I reported this already...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Arnold
>> Thank for the report.  I've applied a fix that will appear in the next
>> automake release.
>>
>> <0001-dist-adjust-warning-messages-about-shar-and-tarZ-dep.patch>
>
> It looks like the warning content for those two targets are reversed to me...
>
> Cheers,
>
Sure, in the diff that Aharon reported they were (which is why he opened
the bug :-) My patch (attached to the message you replied to) fixes that.
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