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

[Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>]

Hi Bruno,

On 9/14/20 3:53 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> It would help if you would give a pointer to the source code you are
> trying to bootstrap. Because a single line in Makefile.am or configure.ac
> can have a big effect.

It lives on my home machine while I try to get it ready for prime time. 
As you may recollect, autogen is a monster. You can pull a copy from 
GNU's git repo, if you're interested: 
https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=autogen

> It is documented here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Modified-build-rules.html

Apparently, somewhere along the line I added "--lib=do_not_make_me". 
That had to have been years ago and I have no recollection of adding 
that. Anyway, that triggered some do_not_make_me_la_SOURCE += whatever 
stuff, which was not added previously. I have no idea how those names 
get selected, but after a grep, sed and unique sort, I came up with this 
list:

> 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       =
These aren't documented on that page. I googled for "do_not_make_me" and 
got no results, tho were I to do it today, I'd likely get this email 
thread. :) Anyway, I am gathering from reading what you've pointed to 
that the grep/sed/sort accommodation is the right solution. Thank you.

Regards, Bruce

For your possible (unlikely?) entertainment:
> fix_do_not_make_me() {
>     local fix_list=$(
>         grep -l FIX-DO-NOT-MAKE-ME \
>              $(find * -type f -name 'Makefile.am'))
>     local sedcmd= vlist= f= v=
>
>     for f in $fix_list
>     do
>         sedcmd=$'/^##* *FIX-DO-NOT-MAKE-ME/ {\ns/.*//\n'
>         vlist=$(sed -n '/do_not_make_me/s/ *[+=].*//p' $f | \
>                     sort -u)
>         if test ${#vlist} -gt 1
>         then
>             sedcmd+=$'i\\\n'
>             for v in $vlist
>             do
>                 sedcmd+="$(printf '%-32s=' $v)"$'\\\n'
>             done
>             sedcmd+=$'\n'
>         fi
>         sedcmd+='}'
>
>         sed "$sedcmd" $f > $f.make-me-fixed
>         mv -f $f.make-me-fixed $f
>     done
> }