Re: troubles with conditional install using automake

[Guillaume Rousse <rousse at ccr dot jussieu dot fr>]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "Guillaume" == Guillaume Rousse <rousse@ccr.jussieu.fr> writes:
>
>
> [...]
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>  Guillaume> In this situation, I have an installation target for
>  Guillaume> initrd scripts in generated Makefile, using
>  Guillaume> $(initrd_SCRIPTS) as dependency. However,
>  Guillaume> initrd_SCRIPTS is defined to $(INITRD) at the
>  Guillaume> beginning of the Makefile, while INITRD is defined
>  Guillaume> at the end of the Makefile, with other conditional
>  Guillaume> variables, and thus appears empty when it is
>  Guillaume> evaluated.
>
> What you describes are two bugs that were present in old
> versions of Automake.  Please look at the Automake version
> number at the top of the generated Makefile you mentioned.  I
> believe you are not using Automake 1.8 as you think (it probably
> is Automake 1.4).
You're right, it does work now. However, what it really strange is that 
I don't have automake 1.4 installed at all, and my older version is 
1.6.3, which also work when explicitly called. My guess is there was 
some old automake cache lying around. As I don't have generated 
makefiles anymore, I can't check :/

> [...]
>
>  Guillaume> BTW, I'm using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.8
>
> Unlikely: Automake 1.8 requires Autoconf 2.58 or greater.
2.59 actually, I was confused by the AC_PREREQ(2.53) at the start of 
configure.ac
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