[Issue 244] Empty ALLOCA causing build error on HPUX

https://ccvs.cvshome.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=244






------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Apr  5 12:37:30 -0700 2005 -------
I can confirm that the generated Makefile.in no longer looks like Nicolas
reports.  Nicolas, can you confirm that you have no problems building the
version of CVS from the CVS repository on cvshome.org?  The new Makefile.in
should be released with 1.12.12, regardless.

Larry Jones writes:

> Derek Price writes:
>  
>> Hey Larry, why aren't you seeing this on your nightly HPUX testing?  
> 
> Well, at least one reason is because lib/Makefile.in hasn't look like
> that since we switched to the newer version of Automake.
> 
>> "HPUX B11.00 A 9000/785" looks pretty close to "HPUX B11.00 U 9000/785" 
>> to my naive eyes.  Are you using GNU Make and Nicolas isn't?
> 
> I am using GNU Make, but that shouldn't make any difference because
> Nicolas's generated Makefile is definitely defective and should work
> (or, in this case, *not* work) exactly the same with either GNU Make or
> standard make.  My guess would be that something was wrong with
> Automake's variable substitution (the entire line should not have
> disappeared) that got fixed in the newer version.
> 
> -Larry Jones