>>> "Sean" == Sean Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> hey all-- Sean> A few weeks ago I began the transition over to autoconf/automake by Sean> taking my semester's project and incorporating autoconf into the Sean> package. everything works really fine, only now I'm having trouble Sean> incorporating automake into the fray. namely, there are two Sean> specific problems: Sean> - ./configure now tests for auto* and makeinfo Sean> is that really necessary? Yes. Automake create Makefiles that know how to rerun the auto* tools when necessary. So configure check for them. Sean> I'd really like to have the configure process have Sean> nothing to do with the autostuff. I took a look at a Sean> couple other gnu packages (tar, gzip) and they don't seem Sean> to do it, and my configure.ac/aclocal.m4 doesn't look too Sean> different... These projects probably use Automake 1.5 or 1.6, where those tests are silent. Sean> - my config.h is consistently nuked by autoheader Sean> whereas previously my config.h was updated from AC_CONFIG_HEADER, Sean> it's now AM_CONFIG_HEADER and always ends up being blank, save a Sean> line saying it's generated by autoheader Ah yeah, it should probably read "this file was nuked by autoheader" <wink>. Anyway, that's odd: autoheader should not touch config.h (only config.h.in or any other name you gave it). Can you give more details? -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
