Hello David and Ralf,
I also did some experiments, and the results are similar to what Ralf
reported.
Indeed, when I did
aclocal
autoconf
automake -a
then automake changed the autom4te.cache even though it should not.
It seems it refreshed the output.1 and traces.1, though the result
was the same as in the previous run of autoconf.
(I have not observed a new traces.x and output.x file, the last
ones (traces.1 and output.1 in my case) were touched.)
When I compared the state of autom4te.cache before and after the
automake run, I saw this:
--- autom4te.sav/requests 2006-09-07 15:27:28.000000000 +0200
+++ autom4te.cache/requests 2006-09-07 15:27:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -355,2 +355,3 @@
'AC_TYPE_PID_T' => 1,
+ 'AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB' => 1,
'AC_CONFIG_FILES' => 1,
So the fix is obvious: add the macro to the preselect list in
autom4te. I installed autoconf-20060907-presel.patch (attached)
to the Autoconf CVS.
Well, if this mistake happens again, it might help if autoreconf
ran autoconf after automake. But I decided against this, because:
1) autoheader has to be ran before automake, to generate config.h.in
2) autoconf should be ran before autoheader, because the comment in
autreconf says it has better diagnostics. (I hope it is still true.)
3) Calling autoconf twice (before and after automake) is too evil to
Bruno, who has autom4te caching switched off.
Well, we could do one thing:
we should add a test to automake test suite to verify that
`automake -a' after `autoconf' does not touch autom4te.cache/output.1
(No I do not volunteer right now, sorry.)
Stepan
2006-09-07 Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx>
* lib/autom4te.in (Automake-preselections): Preselect
AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB.
Index: lib/autom4te.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autom4te.in,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 autom4te.in
--- lib/autom4te.in 13 Jun 2006 18:03:30 -0000 1.31
+++ lib/autom4te.in 7 Sep 2006 13:34:35 -0000
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
args: --preselect AC_SUBST_TRACE
args: --preselect AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION
args: --preselect AM_CONDITIONAL
+args: --preselect AM_ENABLE_MULTILIB
args: --preselect AM_GNU_GETTEXT
args: --preselect AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
args: --preselect AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
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