From c3ad6b0b757ae6859ed7ea95149567bd9b0c6054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Libor Bukata Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:36:49 -0800 Subject: 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 --- m4/depout.m4 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'm4') 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 -- cgit v1.2.1