On Dec 4, 2007 3:35 PM, Hongliang Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for this piece of advice and I am dropping autogen.sh from > repository now, > but compiling still fails. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> autoreconf > Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found > Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found > Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found > Makefile.am: required file `./COPYING' not found > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 ... > AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = gnu
By saying "gnu" you're telling automake that your project needs to have NEWS, AUTHORS, ChangeLog, and COPYING (which you don't have), and thus it rightly complains. Perhaps you could change this to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign or in configure.ac: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(foreign) But if you do think you should have those files, by all means go ahead and create them (and check them into the repository).
