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I=E2=80=99m using automake 1.15.1 on Fedora 28.

I changed my AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() to include subdir-objects.

As soon as I did this, I started seeing failures like:

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/philipp/git/snt/libntp'
Makefile:902: warning: overriding recipe for target =
'../lib/isc/pthreads/.dirstamp'
Makefile:802: warning: ignoring old recipe for target =
'../lib/isc/pthreads/.dirstamp'
Makefile:905: warning: overriding recipe for target =
'../lib/isc/pthreads/.deps/.dirstamp'
Makefile:805: warning: ignoring old recipe for target =
'../lib/isc/pthreads/.deps/.dirstamp'
Makefile:964: ../lib/isc/unix/.deps/time.Po: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '../lib/isc/unix/.deps/time.Po'.  =
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/philipp/git/snt/libntp'

After some head-scratching, I noticed:

$ find . -name '$*' -print
./sntp/tests/$(top_builddir)
./tests/ntpd/$(srcdir)
./libntp/$(srcdir)
$=20

and root-caused this to here:

    # Extract the definition of DEPDIR, am__include, and am__quote
    # from the Makefile without running 'make'.
    DEPDIR=3D`sed -n 's/^DEPDIR =3D //p' < "$mf"`
    test -z "$DEPDIR" && continue
    am__include=3D`sed -n 's/^am__include =3D //p' < "$mf"`
    test -z "$am__include" && continue
    am__quote=3D`sed -n 's/^am__quote =3D //p' < "$mf"`
    # Find all dependency output files, they are included files with
    # $(DEPDIR) in their names.  We invoke sed twice because it is the
    # simplest approach to changing $(DEPDIR) to its actual value in the
    # expansion.
    for file in `sed -n "
      s/^$am__include $am__quote\(.*(DEPDIR).*\)$am__quote"'$/\1/p' =
<"$mf" | \
         sed -e 's/\$(DEPDIR)/'"$DEPDIR"'/g'`; do
      # Make sure the directory exists.
      test -f "$dirpart/$file" && continue
      fdir=3D`$as_dirname -- "$file" ||
=E2=80=A6
      as_dir=3D$dirpart/$fdir; as_fn_mkdir_p
      # echo "creating $dirpart/$file"
      echo '# dummy' > "$dirpart/$file"
    done

Problem is, what happens if the line you=E2=80=99ve read looks like:

include $(srcdir)/../lib/isc/unix/$(DEPDIR)/time.Po

after mangling that, we end up with =
file=3D$(srcdir)/../lib/isc/unix/.deps/time.Po which is obviously wrong.

Yes, $(DEPDIR) needs to be substituted out=E2=80=A6 but so does every =
other variable potentially, including $(srcdir) =E2=80=A6

Either subdir-objects should handle ALL possible expansions (might =
require some hackery and recursively calling Makefile on each line to do =
expansions)=E2=80=A6 or configure should make sure that $file doesn=E2=80=99=
t match /\$(.*)/ indicating that it contains unexpanded variables=E2=80=A6=
 and maybe suggest using @variable@ substitutions instead if possible.

If you want to reproduce this yourselves, grab the ntp-4.8.2p11 tarball =
and change configure.ac and sntp/configure.ac to use =
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([=E2=80=A6 subdir-objects =E2=80=A6]) instead.

Run:

./bootstrap
./configure --with-crypto --with-threads --disable-silent-rules =
--disable-local-libevent

and you=E2=80=99ll see the broken behavior.

Thanks,

-Philip

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Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we =
could add something like:

val.%:
	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
		echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \
	)

var.%:
	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
		echo "$*=3D'"'$(subst ','"'\"'\"'"',$($*))'"'" \
	)

toward the bottom.  Then if we found a line matching /\$(\([^)]+\))/ =
then we could look up =E2=80=9Cval.\1=E2=80=9D from the match, and =
substitute that back in.  Obviously the more matches, the more =
iterations and the more =E2=80=9Cmake -s val.\1=E2=80=9D lookups.  But =
at least it would work.

If we used a Perl helper, we could find ALL of the matches, and do ALL =
of the lookups at once in make for more constant time, since we=E2=80=99d =
do one make process per line regardless of how many substitutions were =
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On 7/25/18, Philip Prindeville <philipp@HIDDEN> wrote:
> Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we
> could add something like:
>
> val.%:
> 	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
> 		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
> 		echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \
> 	)
>
> var.%:
> 	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
> 		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
> 		echo "$*='"'$(subst ','"'\"'\"'"',$($*))'"'" \
> 	)
>
> toward the bottom.

I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of this is, but it doesn't
look like portable code, so probably not something Automake should
be generating.

But don't let that stop you.  You can add basically anything you'd
like, including the above rules, to your project's Makefile.am and
Automake will copy it through to the output.

Cheers,
  Nick

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> On Jul 25, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@HIDDEN> wrote:
> 
> On 7/25/18, Philip Prindeville <philipp@HIDDEN> wrote:
>> Since automake/autoconf are responsible for generating Makefiles, we
>> could add something like:
>> 
>> val.%:
>> 	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
>> 		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
>> 		echo '$(subst ','"'"',$($*))' \
>> 	)
>> 
>> var.%:
>> 	@$(if $(filter undefined,$(origin $*)),\
>> 		echo "$* undefined" >&2, \
>> 		echo "$*='"'$(subst ','"'\"'\"'"',$($*))'"'" \
>> 	)
>> 
>> toward the bottom.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what the purpose of this is, but it doesn't
> look like portable code, so probably not something Automake should
> be generating.
> 
> But don't let that stop you.  You can add basically anything you'd
> like, including the above rules, to your project's Makefile.am and
> Automake will copy it through to the output.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Nick


Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes.

How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with?

-Philip

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On 07/25/2018 05:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes.
> 
> How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with?

At the moment, all of them.

Automake 2.0 (currently a work in progress if you check out the right 
branches in git) requires GNU make, for more compact makefiles at the 
expense of ditching portability to other arcane makes, now that GNU make 
is more likely to be easily obtained on modern systems.  But automake 
1.x still tries as hard as possible to produce Makefiles portable to all 
common make implementations, as long as your Makefile.am doesn't add 
non-portable code to be passed through to Makefile.

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> On Jul 25, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN> wrote:
>=20
> On 07/25/2018 05:06 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>=20
>> Well, the above assumes Gnu Make, yes.
>> How many other flavors of Make does automake/autoconf work with?
>=20
> At the moment, all of them.
>=20
> Automake 2.0 (currently a work in progress if you check out the right =
branches in git) requires GNU make, for more compact makefiles at the =
expense of ditching portability to other arcane makes, now that GNU make =
is more likely to be easily obtained on modern systems.  But automake =
1.x still tries as hard as possible to produce Makefiles portable to all =
common make implementations, as long as your Makefile.am doesn't add =
non-portable code to be passed through to Makefile.
>=20


In the absence of Gnu make, the other choice would be to emit:

cat <<_EOF_ > /tmp/extvar$$.mk
include $(pwd)/Makefile

xyzzy:
	@echo =E2=80=98\$(variable)=E2=80=99
_EOF_

then we could run =E2=80=9Cvariable=3D$(make -f /tmp/extvar$$.mk =
xyzzy)=E2=80=9D from inside configure=E2=80=A6 a little uglier than =
using val.% as a target, but=E2=80=A6

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