>>> "William" == William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
William> The problem is with subdirectories and the root
William> directory containing a Makefile.in rather than a
William> Makefile.am.
Yeah, many things in Automake happens only when processing the
top-level Makefile. Installing config.sub and config.guess is
one such thing.
It happens that the way tools required by Autoconf macros (e.g.,
install-sh, config.{sub,guess}, compile, missing, or ltmain.sh)
are checked has be revamped earlier this week for other reasons,
and that this situation will no longer be troublesome with
(faraway) Automake 1.10.
In the meantime the only way to have these files updated by
--force-missing is to have a top-level Makefile.am.
William> Is there perhaps anything I can put in the root
William> Makefile.in to get config.sub and config.guess
William> installed?
Automake only reads *.am files. Either you should use a
top-level Makefile.am, or you should update these files yourself
(it's not unusual to wget them from their CVS repository before
release -- see Automake if you need an example).
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
