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

brian m. carlson sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx
Tue Mar 9 22:25:31 UTC 2010


tags 572840 - unreproducible
kthxbye

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:38:10PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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. 

If you'd read my followup, you'd have seen that this occurs because of
POSIXLY_CORRECT.  --force is also not documented in the manual page,
which means that either the man page needs an update, or
gnome-autogen.sh needs not to use it.

As for automake, this is documented in the Perl documentation for
Getopt::Long, so we can assume that if the authors wanted automake to
have different behavior, they would have made sure that that environment
variable wasn't set.

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