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Bug 612329 - automake --force unrecognized if POSIXLY_CORRECT set
automake --force unrecognized if POSIXLY_CORRECT set
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-common
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: David King
Gnome Common Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-09 18:49 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2012-08-01 21:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
patch to drop --force with automake (948 bytes, patch)
2012-07-30 16:15 UTC, David King 		committed Details | Review

Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2010-03-09 18:49:22 UTC 
[ From http://bugs.debian.org/572840 ]

emilio@saturno:~$ automake --force
automake: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required
emilio@saturno:~$ POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 automake --force
automake: unrecognized option `--force'.
automake: Try `/usr/bin/automake --help' for more information.
emilio@saturno:~$ 

Since --no-force is not the default (so --force would be if it existed) as can be seen in the automake info manual or in automake's source code, the --force option could be removed, or alternatively POSIXLY_CORRECT unset. I like more the first option.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2010-05-30 21:06:07 UTC 
I don't see any indication in the automake manual that --force would be unrecognised when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set? Is that by design, or a bug ?
Comment 2 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2010-05-30 22:21:47 UTC 
It's probably a bug in automake for letting Getopt::Long accept --force sometimes, but not always.

Anyway I've looked in the automake info manual and I see no mention of --force for automake, only --no-force (--force is documented for aclocal but not automake) and automake --help doesn't list it either. Why not just remove the option since --force is the default?
Comment 3 David King 2012-07-30 16:15:28 UTC 
Created attachment 219910 [details] [review]
patch to drop --force with automake

This patch removes the use of --force with automake in gnome-autogen.sh.
Comment 4 David King 2012-08-01 21:51:42 UTC 
Comment on attachment 219910 [details] [review]
patch to drop --force with automake

Pushed to master as commit 0efa19df00955bfec29995736e262412fd32de86.