Re: Trying to bootstrap my project, distcheck doesn't configure

[Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>]

Sorry, Mathieu, I can now see I sent it to the wrong list.

On 9/14/20 11:33 AM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
I'm hitting this that I've never seen before:
>>> $ grep do_not_make_me au*bld/autoopts/Makefile.am
>>> do_not_make_me_la_LIBADD += @LTALLOCA@
>>> do_not_make_me_la_DEPENDENCIES += @LTALLOCA@
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += alloca.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += dup2.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += fd-hook.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += gettext.h
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += msvc-inval.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += msvc-nothrow.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += nanosleep.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += parse-duration.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += raise.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += select.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += sig-handler.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += sigaction.c
>>> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += sigprocmask.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += sockets.h sockets.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += stat-time.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += sys_socket.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += timespec.c
>>> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES += unistd.c
>> which trigger error messages that I can get around by hacking in dummy
>> initial assignments, but I'm guessing that's not the intended
>> method. I need a clue, please? Thank you.

It seems that gnulib-tool inserts these into my Makefile.am, but doesn't 
insert the initial plain assignment. I have no idea what new ones may 
crop up, so I've added a "##FIX-DO-NOT-MAKE-ME" line to my 
Makefile.am's. That gets fixed by figuring out which ones get 
automatically inserted. e.g.:

> BUILT_SOURCES          =
> MOSTLYCLEANFILES    =
> EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES =
> do_not_make_me_la_DEPENDENCIES  =
> do_not_make_me_la_LIBADD        =
> do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES       =

But I still have confusing problems:

> autoopts/Makefile.am:33: warning: variable 
> 'EXTRA_do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
> autoopts/Makefile.am:33: library has 'do_not_make_me_la' as canonical 
> name (possible typo)
> autoopts/Makefile.am:36: warning: variable 'do_not_make_me_la_SOURCES' 
> is defined but no program or
> autoopts/Makefile.am:36: library has 'do_not_make_me_la' as canonical 
> name (possible typo)
> autoopts/Makefile.am:35: warning: variable 'do_not_make_me_la_LIBADD' 
> is defined but no program or
> autoopts/Makefile.am:35: library has 'do_not_make_me_la' as canonical 
> name (possible typo)
> autoopts/Makefile.am:34: warning: variable 
> 'do_not_make_me_la_DEPENDENCIES' is defined but no program or
> autoopts/Makefile.am:34: library has 'do_not_make_me_la' as canonical 
> name (possible typo)
> doc/Makefile.am:40: installing 'config/texinfo.tex'

and I have no obvious workaround for it. And Googling 'gnulib 
do_not_make_me' yields nothing.