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Normal bugs - outstanding:
(List of all such bugs is available.)
- #7328: parallel installation ignores deps between libtool libraries
Package: automake;
Reported by: Andy Wingo <wingo@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5478 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@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5434 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@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5422 days old.
- #7868: parallel-tests and command-line length limit issue
Package: automake;
Reported by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5402 days old.
- #7884: Yacc and FreeBSD make in VPATH builds
Package: automake;
Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5400 days old.
- #8362: make install prefix inserted in source code with generated python files
Package: automake;
Reported by: "A.T.Hofkamp" <a.t.hofkamp@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #16527; 5335 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@HIDDEN>; 5231 days old.
- #9512: TEXINFOS primary and nodist_ (was: Re: makeinfo in VPATH builds fails)
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sebastian Freundt <devel@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 5164 days old.
- #9859: subdir-objects, dirstamps and --disable-dependency-tracking
Package: automake;
Reported by: Ignacy Gawedzki <i@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #27188; 5124 days old.
- #10825: Better bison support in Automake (was: Re: FYI: master: calc++: rely on Automake)
Package: automake;
Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: help confirmed; 5010 days old.
- #10888: Wait, isn't rpath supposed to be set automagically?
Package: automake;
Reported by: Miles Bader <miles@HIDDEN>; 4999 days old.
- #11863: Building test plugins
Package: automake;
Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: help confirmed; 4870 days old.
- #13940: Spurious target redefinition warnings with Automake conditionals
Package: automake;
Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: help confirmed; 4619 days old.
- #16341: vala does not respect -d/--directory to generate dependency rules
Package: automake;
Reported by: Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 4321 days old.
- #16527: 1.14: (nodist_)python_PYTHON does not behave as bin_SCRIPTS
Package: automake;
Reported by: Akim Demaille <akim.demaille@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #8362; 4303 days old.
- #16588: TAP driver fails with DOS line endings
Package: automake;
Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@HIDDEN>; 4296 days old.
- #17327: Automake dying with internal error: "global options already processed"
Package: automake;
Reported by: Gallagher James <jgallagher@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 4212 days old.
- #18662: Local -L flags for "make check" appear too late under HP-UX
Package: automake;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 4045 days old.
- #18822: Faulty $(lib@FOO@bar_la_OBJECTS) substitution
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquyres@HIDDEN>; 4028 days old.
- #19020: improve support for flex in C++ mode
Package: automake;
Reported by: brahim sahbi <brahim.sahbi@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 4010 days old.
- #19042: test-driver path in automake 1.14.1
Package: automake;
Reported by: Adrian Calianu <Adrian.Calianu@HIDDEN>; 4008 days old.
- #19418: AC_CONFIG_FILES / stamp-h? problem
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)" <jsquyres@HIDDEN>; 3971 days old.
- #19614: make dist exits succesfully even when tar exits with error
Package: automake;
Reported by: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed; 3944 days old.
- #19616: dist tarball contains hardlinks
Package: automake;
Reported by: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@HIDDEN>; 3944 days old.
- #19692: "rm -f" without file operands specified displays error and exits with status 1 on QNX 6.3.2
Package: automake;
Reported by: Matt Kraai <kraai@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: pending; 3934 days old.
- #19750: FAIL: t/fort4.sh on x86_64 darwin in automake 1.15
Package: automake;
Reported by: Jack Howarth <howarth.mailing.lists@HIDDEN>; 3927 days old.
- #19961: check-local is kind of like check-hook
Package: automake;
Reported by: Shahbaz Youssefi <shabbyx@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed; 3902 days old.
- #20186: Failure to create directory during info-building phase of "make distcheck"
Package: automake;
Reported by: James Youngman <jay@HIDDEN>; 3878 days old.
- #20244: automake 1.15: tests-environment-fd-redirect hangs on RHEL 6.6, CentOS 6.6 w/ ksh 2012-08-01
Package: automake;
Reported by: Diab Jerius <djerius@HIDDEN>; 3869 days old.
- #20693: SKIP not counted in TAP
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309@HIDDEN>; 3811 days old.
- #20714: tap-driver.sh outputs incorrect .trs tag
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309@HIDDEN>; 3808 days old.
- #20715: tap-driver.sh 'missing test plan' message contradicts the TAP Standard
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309@HIDDEN>; 3808 days old.
- #20716: TAP Protocol skip is not recognized.
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309@HIDDEN>; 3808 days old.
- #20986: tap-driver.sh replacement
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Arthur Schwarz" <aschwarz1309@HIDDEN>; 3774 days old.
- #21106: AC_SUBST([FOO_LIB], ['libfoo.la']) breaks dependency checker
Package: automake;
Reported by: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@HIDDEN>; 3758 days old.
- #21352: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS vs. ACLOCAL_FLAGS: different behavior wrt AM_COND_IF, aclocal fails
Package: automake;
Reported by: Christian Rössel <christian.roessel@HIDDEN>; 3722 days old.
- #21585: 'global options already processed' error
Package: automake;
Reported by: Mark Galassi <mark@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo;
merged with #26147; 3688 days old.
- #21726: test-driver breaks on empty lines
Package: automake;
Reported by: Hans Stoffels <Jstoffels@HIDDEN>; 3666 days old.
- #22074: unixware 7.1.4 rm command
Package: automake;
Reported by: jhi@HIDDEN;
Keywords: pending; 3624 days old.
- #22331: nodist_nobase_ variable does not treat nobase_ as a special prefix
Package: automake;
Reported by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@HIDDEN>; 3587 days old.
- #22463: c++ linker instead of c linker
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylvain.bertrand@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 3570 days old.
- #23029: Enable subdir-objects cannot find Po of source with absolute path
Package: automake;
Reported by: Hansni Liu <hansni.sc@HIDDEN>; 3519 days old.
- #23172: Test suite failures related to 'yacc' on Salix OS
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Clay Hansen" <clayh@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: unreproducible; 3504 days old.
- #23639: Half bug
Package: automake;
Reported by: Alexandre Sanches <alexandre.sanches@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo help confirmed;
merged with #24807,
#49901; 3446 days old.
- #24403: Automake fails to build via Homebrew if path to Xcode contains a space
Package: automake;
Reported by: Michael Miller <michaelmiller@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 3342 days old.
- #24807: aclocal: too many loops error with Autoconf archives macros
Package: automake;
Reported by: 夢巫子 (Yumiko) <yumiko@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo help confirmed;
merged with #23639,
#49901; 3295 days old.
- #25250: aclocal error: "too many loops" on Windows 7 (msys2 64-bit)
Package: automake;
Reported by: Matt Postiff <pastor@HIDDEN>;
merged with #33420; 3238 days old.
- #26031: EXEEXT not working with "make check"
Package: automake;
Reported by: selinger@HIDDEN (Peter Selinger); 3162 days old.
- #26147: "Global options already processes" error when building cufflinks
Package: automake;
Reported by: Christopher.Pauli@HIDDEN;
Keywords: moreinfo;
merged with #21585; 3153 days old.
- #26471: Automake 1.15 generates a recheck target that depends on all, breaking parallel builds
Package: automake;
Reported by: Seth Fowler <seth.fowler@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 3127 days old.
- #27188: lex/yacc with subdir-objects and --disable-dependency-tracking broken
Package: automake;
Reported by: Nick Brown <brownn@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #9859; 3077 days old.
- #28002: Automake doesn't handle AC_CONFIG_FILES syntax errors properly
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Ghulam, Sean (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" <sean.ghulam@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #53780; 3010 days old.
- #28967: Global options already processed error when running 'autoreconf'
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sostom M N <sostomc011@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 2932 days old.
- #29188: texi2dvi usage doesn't work with <texinfo-4.9
Package: automake;
Reported by: Barry Anderson <z3ndrag0n@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed; 2919 days old.
- #30126: Do not require “ltmain.sh” for out-of-tree libtool
Package: automake;
Reported by: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch moreinfo; 2849 days old.
- #30128: MSVC: 'invalid numeric argument '/Wl,-DLL,-IMPLIB:.libs...' error for shared GMP builds on Windows
Package: automake;
Reported by: sav_ix@HIDDEN; 2849 days old.
- #31126: GNU Automake 1.16.1 fails 21 tests on Solaris 10 sparcv9
Package: automake;
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@HIDDEN>; 2763 days old.
- #31728: Automake and AM_WITH_DMALLOC; endorsing proprietary software?
Package: automake;
Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@HIDDEN>; 2708 days old.
- #32156: automake handling of texinfo files
Package: automake;
Reported by: Paul Hardy <unifoundry@HIDDEN>; 2669 days old.
- #32269: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, subdir-objects, and $(DEPDIR) not being set correctly
Package: automake;
Reported by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@HIDDEN>; 2659 days old.
- #33420: Bug report automake 1.16.1: Says "aclocal-1.16: error: too many loops"
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@HIDDEN>;
merged with #25250; 2542 days old.
- #33668: built-in YACC rule generates file in build dir, not source dir
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 2523 days old.
- #33779: Wrong lib-list in install-%DIR%LTLIBRARIES
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@HIDDEN>; 2513 days old.
- #33819: automake-1.16.1 test failures on NetBSD due to weird install-sh failures
Package: automake;
Reported by: Thomas Klausner <tk@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 2510 days old.
- #35763: error for make check automake
Package: automake;
Reported by: 任 伟航 <Renweihang.a@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 2363 days old.
- #39666: distcheck for VPATH build: #line directives of generated YACC and LEX c-files in tarballs
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Jannick" <thirdedition@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 2085 days old.
- #42883: Selecting a subset of tests in recursive make causes unnecessary failures
Package: automake;
Reported by: development@HIDDEN;
Keywords: help confirmed; 1906 days old.
- #45205: Failed tests for 1.16.3 on Solaris
Package: automake;
Reported by: Dagobert Michelsen <dam@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 1787 days old.
- #45756: Prepending '+' to the recipe line when linking with GCC's -flto=jobserver
Package: automake;
Reported by: "R. Diez" <rdiezmail-temp2@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: help confirmed; 1759 days old.
- #49901: Bug in build c-ares
Package: automake;
Reported by: Денис Эпиков <danwerspb@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo help confirmed;
merged with #23639,
#24807; 1551 days old.
- #50924: automake-1.16: error: unrequested trace '$n'
Package: automake;
Reported by: Filipp Uskov <fel1992@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1495 days old.
- #53780: Automake failing with conditional AC_CONFIG_FILES
Package: automake;
Reported by: Valio Valtokari <ubuntugeek1904@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed;
merged with #28002; 1368 days old.
- #54020: document libtool compile-specific flags in manual
Package: automake;
Reported by: Damian Szuberski <szuberskidamian@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 1357 days old.
- #54390: YACC rules don't check DESTDIR existence for VPATH builds
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sam James <sam@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: notabug; 1330 days old.
- #54421: AM_PROG_AR and LT_INIT don't work together when using lib.exe
Package: automake;
Reported by: Tim Ruffing <crypto@HIDDEN>; 1328 days old.
- #55073: GNU Automake 1.16.5 : 7 testsuite failures on Oracle Solaris 11.3
Package: automake;
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 1291 days old.
- #57404: failed tests: t/remake-gnulib-remove-header.sh & t/stdinc.sh
Package: automake;
Reported by: Алексей <alexei_sylver1@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1166 days old.
- #60508: archive DEPENDENCIES incorrectly depends on ordering
Package: automake;
Reported by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: confirmed help; 1036 days old.
- #61828: aclocal warns when specifying the m4 macro dirs through AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 981 days old.
- #66679: automake: error: undefined condition 'TRUE' for 'info_TEXINFOS'
Package: automake;
Reported by: Eric Gallager <egall@HIDDEN>; 743 days old.
- #68141: automake-1.16j on Ubuntu
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 675 days old.
- #68165: automake-1.16j on Solaris 11
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 674 days old.
- #68177: automake-1.16j on AIX
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 673 days old.
- #68178: automake-1.16j on FreeBSD and macOS
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 673 days old.
- #68179: automake-1.16j on OpenBSD
Package: automake;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 673 days old.
- #68808: subsecond mtime discovery code insufficient
Package: automake;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>; 644 days old.
- #68832: Testing: POSIX yacc and C++ linkage
Package: automake;
Reported by: Marcel Telka <marcel@HIDDEN>; 643 days old.
- #68860: race condition with make recheck
Package: automake;
Reported by: Peter Johansson <trojkan@HIDDEN>; 642 days old.
- #75605: aclocal: error: too many loops
Package: automake;
Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo;
merged with #77395; 291 days old.
- #76527: "make distcheck" broken in non-recursive build systems using Vala support
Package: automake;
Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: help confirmed; 252 days old.
- #77395: "error: too many loops" with Automake 1.17
Package: automake;
Reported by: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo;
merged with #75605; 218 days old.
- #77851: AM_RUN_LOG not found due to ustar by default
Package: automake;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>;
merged with #77852; 201 days old.
- #77852: AM_RUN_LOG not found due to ustar by default
Package: automake;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>;
merged with #77851; 201 days old.
- #79049: ChangeLog is added to distribution even when inside a false conditional
Package: automake;
Reported by: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>; 107 days old.
- #79052: epsf.tex: New file
Package: automake;
Reported by: Simon Josefsson <simon@HIDDEN>;
merged with #79053,
#79054; 107 days old.
- #79053: epsf.tex: New file
Package: automake;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>;
merged with #79052,
#79054; 107 days old.
- #79054: epsf.tex: New file
Package: automake;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>;
merged with #79052,
#79053; 107 days old.
- #79086: check-DEJAGNU should produce less noise
Package: automake;
Reported by: Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen <marc.nieper+gnu@HIDDEN>; 103 days old.
- #79170: Please make amhello-1.0.tar.gz reproducible
Package: automake;
Reported by: Jelle van der Waa <jelle@HIDDEN>; 91 days old.
- #79266: Replacement (substitution) variable references not supported in TESTS
Package: automake;
Reported by: Richard Hansen <rhansen@HIDDEN>; 77 days old.
- #79344: Unexpected test failures: automake 1.18.1 and macOS 15.6.1
Package: automake;
Reported by: "Eric Branlund" <ebranlund@HIDDEN>; 66 days old.
- #79419: "automake --add-missing" should not install an obsolete texinfo.tex file
Package: automake;
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 55 days old.
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