[Libguestfs] [PATCH] build: Build synopsis.c before main.c

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:17:17AM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> synopsis.c was defined as dependency of the nbdkit program, but it
> should be define as dependency of main.c. Otherwise "make" fail with:
> 
> main.c:180:10: fatal error: synopsis.c: No such file or directory
>  #include "synopsis.c"
>           ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Fixes commit 445e18f3dbb2 (src, docs: Generate the nbdkit command
> synopsis from a single source).
> ---
>  src/Makefile.am | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
> index 5c67bf8..046bdc3 100644
> --- a/src/Makefile.am
> +++ b/src/Makefile.am
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ nbdkit_LDFLAGS = \
>  # used to generate the man page.
>  
>  EXTRA_DIST = synopsis.c
> -nbdkit_DEPENDENCIES = synopsis.c
> +main.c: synopsis.c
>  synopsis.c: $(top_srcdir)/docs/synopsis.txt
>  	rm -f $@ $@-t
>  	$(SED) -e 's/\(.*\)/"\1\\n"/g' $< > $@-t

Interesting - I don't have this build problem and nbdkit_DEPENDENCIES
is supposed to enforce the ordering.  (Of course automake is a mystery
wrapped in an enigma, so who knows).

Does this happen from a git checkout?

Rich.

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