On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Mo> Am I just missing something obvious? If automake needs
> Mo> to use RANLIB (when making lib_LIBRARIES) why would
> Mo> it not include a AC_CHECK_TOOL for ranlib?
>
> The ordering would be wrong -- you'd have to create aclocal.m4 (eg)
> after scanning Makefile.am.
>
> Tom
Ok, then why don't we just run AC_CHECK_TOOL for ranlib
and any other programs that might be needed all the time?
That should be done in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro right?
Libtool must run these checks because I don't get an
error like this when using a libtool enabled package.
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
