GNU bug reports: package automake

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Important bugs - outstanding:

• #7868: parallel-tests and command-line length limit issue
  Package: automake; Severity: important; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; Keywords: patch; 881 days old.
• #7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds
  Package: automake; Severity: important; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 879 days old.
• #10371: Broken links in the on-line automake manual
  Package: automake; Severity: important; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 540 days old.

Normal bugs - outstanding:

• #7328: parallel installation ignores deps between libtool libraries
  Package: automake; Reported by: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> oblong.com>; 957 days old.
• #7673: Bad option precedence: AM_AUTOMAKE_INIT and AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS might win over command line
  Package: automake; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 913 days old.
• #7763: Remake rules botch up when 'foreign' and 'ignore-deps' are removed from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
  Package: automake; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 901 days old.
• #7860: recursive autoreconf breaks AM_COND_IF conditionalization of AC_CONFIG_FILES
  Package: automake; Reported by: Dave Hart <hart <at> ntp.org>; 882 days old.
• #7994: make distcheck fails when latex is not installed
  Package: automake; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; 863 days old.
• #8289: distcheck and make dvi
  Package: automake; Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry); 823 days old.
• #8362: make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files
  Package: automake; Reported by: "A.T.Hofkamp" <a.t.hofkamp <at> tue.nl>; 814 days old.
• #8540: Java "make uninstall" doesn't work after "make clean"
  Package: automake; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 787 days old.
• #9037: distcheck should check for missing m4 files too (was: Re: bug#9026: Supporting $ACLOCAL_PATH?)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 710 days old.
• #9512: TEXINFOS primary and nodist_ (was: Re: makeinfo in VPATH builds fails)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Sebastian Freundt <devel <at> fresse.org>; 642 days old.
• #9822: AMTAR not used
  Package: automake; Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim.demaille <at> gmail.com>; 606 days old.
• #9859: subdir-objects, dirstamps and --disable-dependency-tracking
  Package: automake; Reported by: Ignacy Gawedzki <i <at> lri.fr>; 603 days old.
• #10825: Better bison support in Automake (was: Re: FYI: master: calc++: rely on Automake)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 488 days old.
• #10852: VPATH builds cannot recover from missing parser header
  Package: automake; Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>; 484 days old.
• #10888: Wait, isn't rpath supposed to be set automagically?
  Package: automake; Reported by: Miles Bader <miles <at> gnu.org>; 478 days old.
• #11155: when cross-compiling with LT_INIT([win32-dll]) wrappers are installed instead of real programs
  Package: automake; Reported by: Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr <at> gmail.com>; 442 days old.
• #11524: [platform-testers] Automake 1.12.0b test release
  Package: automake; Reported by: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>; Keywords: moreinfo; 394 days old.
• #11745: the new test-suite summary is confusing
  Package: automake; Reported by: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl <at> lrde.epita.fr>; 364 days old.
• #11814: The test logs lost their title
  Package: automake; Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim <at> lrde.epita.fr>; 355 days old.
• #11834: supporting MSVC compiler in "make install"
  Package: automake; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; 352 days old.
• #11863: Building test plugins
  Package: automake; Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>; 349 days old.
• #12142: automake tries to compile a program when 'foo' and 'foo.cxx' exist (though the former is header)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Michał Górny <mgorny <at> gentoo.org>; Keywords: notabug; 317 days old.
• #12620: Parallel tests vs fast tests (and beyond)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>; 251 days old.
• #13002: directory variables in VALAFLAGS are expanded after cd
  Package: automake; Reported by: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> unixuser.org>; 204 days old.
• #13104: Extending automake rules w.r.t dependencies
  Package: automake; Reported by: "Theophile Ranquet" <ranquet <at> lrde.epita.fr>; 194 days old.
• #13107: timestamp bug when files are created just before make is run
  Package: automake; Reported by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas <at> artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>; 194 days old.
• #13317: automake fails make check
  Package: automake; Reported by: Ronald Copley <ronald.copley <at> gmail.com>; 169 days old.
• #13928: VPATH issues with subdir-objects
  Package: automake; Reported by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg <at> googlemail.com>; 99 days old.
• #13940: Spurious target redefinition warnings with Automake conditionals
  Package: automake; Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler <at> draconx.ca>; 98 days old.
• #14059: broken link in autotools doku (sent to gnu webmasters and autotools developers)
  Package: automake; Reported by: arne.babenhauserheide <at> kit.edu; 84 days old.
• #14196: Problem with invoking "missing" in directory with "(" in name (Automake 1.11.6, Autoconf 2.68)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn <at> redhat.com>; 67 days old.
• #14245: nobase_foo_DATA vs nobase_dist_foo_DATA
  Package: automake; Reported by: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>; 57 days old.
• #14410: GNU Automake 1.13.2 released
  Package: automake; Reported by: Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio <at> gnu.org>; 33 days old.
• #14594: depcomp missing from Makefile.in in AM 1.13.3
  Package: automake; Reported by: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquyres <at> cisco.com>; Keywords: notabug; 7 days old.
• #14601: Check failed, why?
  Package: automake; Reported by: Elio Blanca <eblanca76 <at> users.sourceforge.net>.

Minor bugs - outstanding:

• #7610: Stripping of comments with the `+=' operator
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 921 days old.
• #7656: MANS primary accepts too many prefixes
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; merged with #10695; 915 days old.
• #7766: docs: work on index issues
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry); 900 days old.
• #7892: test failures induced by stale NFS files on Solaris
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; Keywords: moreinfo; 877 days old.
• #8599: upc (Unified Parallel C) support in automake (was: Re: AM_PROG_UPC)
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 780 days old.
• #9238: "make dist" when "." is in SUBDIRS
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; 684 days old.
• #9320: Documentation addition: AC_SUBSTed variables do not work with LIBADD for dependency generation.
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Krzesimir Nowak <krnowak <at> openismus.com>; 670 days old.
• #9587: Automake claims $(*F), $(<D), etc. are non-POSIX.
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler <at> elliptictech.com>; 634 days old.
• #9625: Overriding `check:' target
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 629 days old.
• #10111: remake rules can fail in a weird corner case (VPATH into $distdir).
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 574 days old.
• #10128: am_foo_OBJECTS is empty when ...
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Sebastian Freundt <freundt <at> fresse.org>; 572 days old.
• #10695: my_man_MANS does not work
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>; merged with #7656; 502 days old.
• #10975: 'make dist-gz dist-xz' fails
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Olaf Lenz <olenz <at> icp.uni-stuttgart.de>; 467 days old.
• #11078: Mailing lists missing from the Automake's savannah page
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 452 days old.
• #11089: LINK determination
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Jason DeVinney <jasondevinney <at> gmail.com>; 450 days old.
• #11377: configure.am - fails to remove configure before attempting replacement
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg <at> tristatelogic.com>; Keywords: moreinfo; 416 days old.
• #11422: automake 1.12 info doc installation problem
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Keywords: moreinfo; 408 days old.
• #11790: Automake-installed auxiliary scripts can get silently out-of-date after an Automake upgrade (was: Re: [PATCH] {master} missing: do not touch timestamps; only warn for out-of-date files)
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 357 days old.
• #13314: GNU Automake 1.12.6 Testsuite FAIL: 2 on Solaris 10
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>; Keywords: moreinfo; 169 days old.
• #13624: ACLOCAL_PATH documentation
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: taylanbayirli <at> gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich B.); Keywords: moreinfo; 135 days old.
• #13761: FAIL: t/objc-megademo.sh (OS X 10.6)
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: "Daniel Macks" <dmacks <at> netspace.org>; Keywords: moreinfo; 119 days old.
• #13832: Tests fail because make runs with more than one jobs
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: "Joshua C." <joshuacov <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: moreinfo; 111 days old.
• #14014: GNU Automake 1.13.1 testsuite FAIL: 1 on 3.2.0-4-powerpc64
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>; 89 days old.
• #14079: Absolute Paths In EXTRA_DIST will cause "make distcheck" failure.
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Mostafa <mostafa_working_away <at> yahoo.com>; 82 days old.
• #14126: dist_EXTRA_SCRIPTS
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov <at> aegee.org>; 77 days old.
• #14177: Incorrect extending of rules in documentation
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: moreinfo; 69 days old.
• #14337: Uncleer error messages when a test script is missing
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Bruce Korb <bkorb <at> gnu.org>; Keywords: wontfix; 47 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #7321: dejagnu support should provide for recheck target
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; 959 days old.
• #7451: Better name for $(AM_V_at)?
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 941 days old.
• #7562: automake-set variables don't get properly reordered when overriden in Makefile.am
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 926 days old.
• #7621: add a way to pass link dependencies
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; 919 days old.
• #7655: conditional _TEXINFOS should be supported
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; 915 days old.
• #7657: TEXINFOS primary accepts too many prefixes
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 915 days old.
• #7671: Presetting various *CLEANFILES variables
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad <at> behdad.org>; 914 days old.
• #7995: Guile support in Automake
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; 863 days old.
• #8022: use .MAKEFILEDEPS for FreeBSD make
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de>; 857 days old.
• #8044: Automake should support autotest-based testsuites.
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 854 days old.
• #8076: PCH support / howto
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek <at> gmail.com>; 851 days old.
• #8099: LaTeX and automake
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>; 847 days old.
• #8319: latexmk in automake
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>; 819 days old.
• #8635: Some Fortran files don't have the extensions automake wants
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peter Williams <pwilliams <at> astro.berkeley.edu>; 773 days old.
• #8662: check_JAVA does not support silent rules
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Petteri Räty <betelgeuse <at> gentoo.org>; 768 days old.
• #8665: automake should offer APIs to honour silent-rules verbosity from shell code in Makefiles
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 768 days old.
• #8945: tar-ustar as a default for automake
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Javier Jardón <jjardon <at> gnome.org>; 722 days old.
• #9088: Better java support with new JARS primary
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 704 days old.
• #9231: Use of TAP in Automake's own testsuite: avoid NIH
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 685 days old.
• #9240: docs: give an example about use of `include'
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 684 days old.
• #9289: Feature request: Better 'nobase_' support for nonrecursive build system.
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Krzesimir Nowak <krnowak <at> openismus.com>; 676 days old.
• #9855: CFLAGS per source
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: NightStrike <nightstrike <at> gmail.com>; 604 days old.
• #10411: Add support for user-defined compressors (was: Re: Automake 1.11.2 released)
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 536 days old.
• #10828: POSIX will say running "rm -f" with no argument is OK
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 488 days old.
• #12164: What is the right way to specify -Wno-format-contains-nul?
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: wontfix; 313 days old.
• #12219: Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE? (was: Re: How to automatically get missing files when changing configure.ac?)
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 305 days old.
• #12501: Automake generated makefiles can be less verbose when building with silent rules
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Hib Eris <hib <at> hiberis.nl>; Keywords: moreinfo; 268 days old.
• #12513: Should aclocal warn when picking up system-wide installed macros?
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peter Johansson <trojkan <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: moreinfo; 267 days old.
• #12657: Can't have spaces in source files
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Hristo Venev <mustrumr97 <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: wontfix; 246 days old.
• #13170: automake and pyconfigure: a future integration? (was: Re: [PATCH] AM_PATH_PYTHON: try "python2" et al. first)
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 187 days old.
• #13324: Improvements to "dist" targets (was: Re: EXTRA_DIST, directories, tar --exclude-vcs)
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 169 days old.
• #13349: Could we just assume support for make recursive variable expansion unconditionally?
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 166 days old.
• #13355: Deprecating and removing the 'mkinstalldir' script
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 165 days old.
• #13378: Make the 'subdir-objects' setup the default, and only available one
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; 162 days old.
• #13435: Please don't kill DJGPP support...
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: DJ Delorie <dj <at> delorie.com>; Keywords: moreinfo patch; 155 days old.
• #13771: GNU make specific stuff cannot be used in RHS of "TESTS ="
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Daiki Ueno <ueno <at> gnu.org>; merged with #14561; 118 days old.
• #14132: check-build target
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Zimmermann Paul <Paul.Zimmermann <at> inria.fr>; 76 days old.
• #14561: GNU make specific stuff cannot be used in RHS of "TESTS ="
  Package: automake; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74 <at> gmail.com>; merged with #13771; 13 days old.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #14581: Using 'TESTS = *.test' with automake 1.13 leads to "fatal: making test-suite.log: failed to create ..." errors (wildcard issue ?)
  Package: automake; Reported by: Xavier Roche <roche*lkml <at> httrack.com>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.

Minor bugs - resolved:

• #11413: Issues with output redirection for parallel make
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14441: bug in new file extensions
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Felix Salfelder <felix <at> salfelder.org>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14488: am-config-header and am-prog-cc-stdc in 1.13.2 fail on openSUSE factory
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Philipp Thomas <pth <at> suse.de>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14493: MSYS line ending problem in t/cxx-demo.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14494: ./test-driver missing in t/distcheck-pr10470.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14495: unistd.h problem in t/lex-header.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14498: Failure with MSVC in t/yacc-bison-skeleton.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14499: broken texi2dvi causes a FAIL in t/txinfo-no-split.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14500: t/subpkg.sh fails when $CC is not cc
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14501: dependency generation FAIL in t/subobj11a.sh
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14517: t/tags-pr12372.sh assumes that etags generates tags for all files
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14528: remake-configure-dependencies test fails on fast systems without subsecond timestamps
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson <at> ubuntu.com>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.
• #14560: C Compilation variables present in output Makefiles unconditionally
  Package: automake; Severity: minor; Reported by: Ralf Corsepius <ralf.corsepius <at> rtems.org>; Keywords: patch; Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>.