tests/remake-am-pr10111.test

   1 #! /bin/sh
   2 # Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 #
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  16
  17 # Check that our remake rules doesn't give spurious successes in
  18 # some corner case situations where they should actually fail.
  19 # See automake bug#10111.
  20 # To be clear, we are speaking about *very* corner-case situations here,
  21 # and the fact that the remake rules might get confused in them is not a
  22 # big deal in practice (in fact, this test *currently fails*).  Still,
  23 # keeping the limitation exposed is a good idea anyway.
  24
  25 . ./defs || Exit 1
  26
  27 cat >> configure.in <<'END'
  28 AC_OUTPUT
  29 END
  30
  31 : > foobar.am
  32
  33 cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
  34 include $(srcdir)/foobar.am
  35 $(srcdir)/foobar.am:
  36 ## Creative quoting is to avoid spurious matches in the grepping
  37 ## of Makefile.in, later.
  38         echo "mu =" foobar "was here =" > $@
  39 END
  40
  41 $ACLOCAL
  42 $AUTOCONF
  43 $AUTOMAKE
  44
  45 ./configure
  46
  47 # OK, so the developer wants to interactively try out how the
  48 # "distributed form" of his package behaves.
  49 $MAKE distdir
  50 cd $distdir
  51 # He's interested in trying out a VPATH build.
  52 mkdir build
  53 cd build
  54 ../configure
  55 # He wants to verify that the rules he's written to rebuild a file
  56 # included by configure.in works also in VPATH builds.
  57 rm -f ../foobar.am
  58 $MAKE
  59 grep '= foobar was here =' ../Makefile.in
  60 $MAKE distcheck
  61
  62 :