Bug#572840: gnome-common: automake does not have --force option

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 572840 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612329
thanks

On 09/03/10 19:38, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> tag 572840 unreproducible
> thanks
> 
> Le samedi 06 mars 2010 à 23:17 +0000, brian m. carlson a écrit : 
>> Whilst trying to build a copy of yelp from git:
>>
>>   Running automake-1.11...
>>   automake-1.11: unrecognized option `--force'.
>>   automake-1.11: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.11 --help' for more information.
> 
>> lakeview no % automake-1.11 --force
>>   automake-1.11: unrecognized option `--force'.
>>   automake-1.11: Try `/usr/bin/automake-1.11 --help' for more information.
> 
> Sorry but I can’t reproduce this. Here the --force option is recognized
> and accepted. Ignored, but accepted. 

I've just forwarded this upstream. You need to set POSIXLY_CORRECT in the
environment for automake to complain.