Re: problem with xmldocs.make with new automake

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:58:59AM +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I ran into some troubles with your xmldocs.make infrastructure with 
> automakes 1.6.  New automake actually processes include statements 
> itself, and includes the contents (so the includes actually get 
> processed as automake input).  Unfortunately there is a bug in this 
> code, which trips up on this section:
>   $(docname).xml: $(entities)
>           -ourdir=`pwd`;  \
>           cd $(srcdir);   \
>           cp $(entities) $$ourdir
> 
> It trips up on the line with the equals sign, and treats it as a 
> variable definition (and reorders it out of the rule).  The bug has been 
> reported to the automake guys:
>   
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view+audit-trail&database=automake&pr=308
> 

Is there a fix we need to make to xmldocs.make to work around this?

Cheers,

John