21.5 I don't know if this is a great idea or not. My git repositories do not contain configure or src/depend, and every time I do "git clone" (or even "git pull" in some situations) I get bit. This patch adds a configure test for existence of src/depend, and if it doesn't exist, configure tries to create it (in $srcdir/src). As far as I can tell this is guaranteed win---if src/depend exists, it's a no-op and if it doesn't configure will succeed where it used to fail because it couldn't find depend. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to create it in $blddir. Comments requested. Index: ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.506 diff -u -r1.506 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 6 Jun 2006 00:18:28 -0000 1.506 +++ ChangeLog 23 Jun 2006 14:10:20 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,5 ＠＠ +2006-06-23 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * configure.ac (Build Makefile.in's from Makefile.in.in's): + Create $srcdir/src/depend if it's missing. + Index: configure.ac =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/configure.ac,v retrieving revision 1.43 diff -u -r1.43 configure.ac --- configure.ac 6 Jun 2006 00:18:29 -0000 1.43 +++ configure.ac 23 Jun 2006 14:10:21 -0000 ＠＠ -6218,6 +6218,14 ＠＠ dnl module Makefiles will have the common text in dnl modules/common/Makefile.common appended. +dnl this actually should be conditional on having perl (ie, effectively +dnl unconditional on sane systems) +if test -r $srcdir/src/depend; then :; +else + echo "creating $srcdir/src/depend" + perl $srcdir/src/make-src-depend > $srcdir/src/depend +fi + for file in $internal_makefile_list; do case $file in src/Makefile.in ) file="src/Makefile.in:src/Makefile.in.in:src/depend" ;; -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Economics of Information Communication and Computation Systems Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory