Patrick Guio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Dear all, |> I am using currently autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2. |> I find it annoying not to be able to use te nice tool autoreconf without |> that all the following files NEWS, README, AUTHORS and ChangeLog should be |> present in the current directory. automake has the possibility to disable |> that feature with the --foreign option. Why not allow autoreconf to take |> in options for the other tools?
Try setting it via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am or AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.in. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."