Re: Bug in depcomp (4.1)

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the report and patch.
That problem is fixed in the latest version of depcomp (in the official
automake CVS repository) and as such will be in the next fileutils release.

Per Ekman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There seems to be a bug in depcomp in fileutils-4.1. It generates
> dependency files with two dependencies on the first line, for
> instance lib/.deps/__fpending.Po :
>
> __fpending.o : \
...
> ...
>
> Compilation works ok but "make check" fails on AIX (xlc 3.6.4.0). I
> think it should fail under Irix (MIPSPro cc 7.3.1.1) as well but the
> compiler happens to generate a line starting with # as the last line
> in the dependency file so the bug is masked.
>
> The following patch solved it for me :
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