>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Apr 2, 2000, Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Have you tried to make dist in a a build dir that's not srcdir?
Alexandre> A long time ago, I installed a patch in autoconf to make it
Alexandre> work. I don't know if it has been broken again since then.
Maybe I don't know. I never practiced this :(.
>> Is it working for you when you start from a clean just-checked-out
>> repository?
Alexandre> Nope. The first problem is that autoconf needs itself to
Alexandre> bootstrap.
Not really, the CVS repository contains the full tarball (with
configure, Makefile.in etc.).
Alexandre> The second problem is that its aclocal.m4 must not be
Alexandre> updated with automake; instead, you must manually update
Alexandre> the various m4 files within the m4 directory. I'm not sure
Alexandre> I like this setup.
I want Autoconf to be the first to use what it advocates, but we sure
can roll back to using the beloved aclocal :).
Alexandre> The other problem is that, since automake no longer sees
Alexandre> the AC_SUBSTs in m4/*.m4, it won't automatically define
Alexandre> them in the top-level Makefile.in. That's why AMTAR is not
Alexandre> defined at all :-(
Not only that, it won't see the new AC_SUBST which are in the library
files, such as M4, from AC_PROG_GNU_M4 :( So you have to install the
@M4@ yourself. But this one is already added by hand.
Akim
