On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 14:32 -0400, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius writes:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 15:44 -0400, Jeffrey Sheinberg wrote:
> > > John Ling writes:
> > > > Hi Ralf, yes that's exactly what I am trying to do.
> > > >
> > > > Since I'm using automake 1.7.7 then this is why it isn't including
> the
> > > > m4 directory.
> > > >
> > > > I'll just use EXTRA_DIST for now then until I upgrade to a more
> recent
> > > > Automake.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I needed to use use EXTRA_DIST in a similar situation with
> > > Automake version 1.9.3, in order for make distcheck to work.
> > >
> > > In my case, the m4 directory was empty, so as the following
> > > comments describe it, I consider this to be a bug in Automake.
> >
> > I think you are missing something. automake-1.9.x will distribute all
> > the m4-files being used by a configure script, it will not distribute
> > "all files below m4/"
> >
> > So, if you're not using the *.m4's inside of your m4/ directory,
> > automake will not distribute anything.
>
> Since there are no *.m4 files in the m4/ directory, of course
> automake cannot distribute them, but in order for make distclean
> to work, the m4/ directory needs to be included in the dist
> tarball.
I fail to understand what you are trying to say.
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR (DIR) is defined as:
Future versions of `autopoint', `libtoolize', `aclocal' and
`autoreconf' will use directory DIR as the location of additional
local Autoconf macros. Be sure to call this macro directly from
`configure.ac' so that tools that install macros for `aclocal' can
find the declaration before `--trace' can be called safely.
> As I pointed out, automake cetainly has enough information to
> automatically include the m4/ directory in the dist tarball, but
> it does not do this - the workaround being EXTRA_DIST.
This is not how it is supposed to work.
> $ grep m4 configure.ac Makefile.am
> configure.ac:AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
> Makefile.am:ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
> Makefile.am:# Workaround a bug in automake - inclusion of the "m4" directory
> should
> Makefile.am:# be triggered by the presence of either,
> "AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])" in
> Makefile.am:# "configure.ac", or "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4" in "Makefile.am".
IMO, what you are writing above doesn't make any sense.
> Makefile.am:EXTRA_DIST += m4
Ralf
