[adding bug-automake]
On 07/23/2010 05:31 PM, Sam Silla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting the following error:
>
> cd && /bin/sh ./config.status Makefile
> /bin/sh: ./config.status: No such file or directory
>
> It seems the configure file is changing directories to home, which isn't
> correct. Any ideas what's wrong? I'm guessing the srcdir variable isn't
> being set properly.
Which package was this where you encountered the problem? Perhaps it is
a problem specific to that package?
At any rate, I think the problem is more likely to be in automake than
in autoconf, since this is a case of bad quoting in the Makefile, which
is not under autoconf's control.
In particular, I note that automake generates the following:
cd $(top_builddir) && $(SHELL) ./config.status $@
$(am__depfiles_maybe);; \
If, for some reason, $(top_builddir) didn't get defined correctly, then
that would explain your symptoms. Automake could protect itself a bit
better by using
cd '$(top_builddir)' && ...
since "cd" will succeed but "cd ''" will fail, but that still doesn't
explain the root cause for $(top_builddir) not expanding correctly.
Or maybe the package you are compiling didn't use automake, and it is a
bug in their hand-written Makefile.in?
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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