Hello Alexandre,

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:05:10AM +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> (I'm appending the 1.10 documentation for AC_CONFIG_FILES for reference.)

I shouldn't forget to tell you how I'm grateful for your work.
Both the solution and the documentation are excellent.

Yet let me do some nit-picking:
1) I noticed typos; see the patch attached.

2) Regarding the sentence:

>      Even `AC_SUBST' does not help here, because `automake' needs to know
>      the filename at run-time in order to check whether `Makefile.am'
>      exists.

My feelings are that when Autoconf and Automake run, it's ``compile-time'',
while the term ``run-time'' denotes the time when ./configure and make run.

There is one spot in the Automake manual which supports this, in the node
"Conditional Programs":

        Obviously it cannot rewrite values obtained at run-time
        through `configure' substitutions,

I'm not sure how the solution should look like; a minimal change would be

        ...`automake' needs to know the filename at it's run-time ...

but I wouldn't be surprised if you found a much better solution.

Thank you again,
        Stepan
2005-02-08  Stepan Kasal  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * doc/automake.texi: Typos.

Index: doc/automake.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/automake/automake/doc/automake.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.95
diff -u -r1.95 automake.texi
--- doc/automake.texi   7 Feb 2005 22:48:57 -0000       1.95
+++ doc/automake.texi   8 Feb 2005 07:23:18 -0000
@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@
 
 @noindent
 Here cleaning, distributing, and rebuilding are done automatically,
-because @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@}} is know at @code{make}-time.
+because @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@}} is known at @code{make}-time.
 
 Note that you should not use shell variables to declare
 @file{Makefile} files for which @command{automake} must create
@@ -6901,7 +6901,7 @@
 
 These options must be passed as argument to @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE}
 (@pxref{Macros}) because they can require additional configure checks.
-Automake will complain if it sees such options in a
+Automake will complain if it sees such options in an
 @code{AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS} variable.
 
 @code{tar-v7} selects the old V7 tar format.  This is the historical

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