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| author | Libor Bukata <libor.bukata@oracle.com> | 2020-02-14 18:36:49 -0800 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2020-02-14 18:36:49 -0800 |
| commit | c3ad6b0b757ae6859ed7ea95149567bd9b0c6054 (patch) | |
| tree | 2743ed16da09a3d59aa6783307565ad564e3cc59 | |
| parent | 71dff5b2fd994d169cc4199d9cbc75c1756d32b7 (diff) | |
| download | automake-c3ad6b0b757ae6859ed7ea95149567bd9b0c6054.tar.gz | |
cosmetics: improve error message when dependency tracking fails
This change fixes https://bugs.gnu.org/35848.
* m4/depout.m4: Add suggestion to try GNU make to the error message.
Original patch at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2019-05/msg00000.html
| -rw-r--r-- | m4/depout.m4 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/m4/depout.m4 b/m4/depout.m4 index b3cadcb90..d612876f1 100644 --- a/m4/depout.m4 +++ b/m4/depout.m4 @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ AC_DEFUN([_AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS], done if test $am_rc -ne 0; then AC_MSG_FAILURE([Something went wrong bootstrapping makefile fragments - for automatic dependency tracking. Try re-running configure with the + for automatic dependency tracking. If GNU make was not used, consider + re-running the configure script with MAKE="gmake" (or whatever is + necessary). You can also try re-running configure with the '--disable-dependency-tracking' option to at least be able to build the package (albeit without support for automatic dependency tracking).]) fi |