Warren Young wrote: > You can create empty versions of these files to appease the tool. (Per > the thread topic, they would go in the repository.) Or, maybe you have > a use for some of these files, so they could have actual content.
He has them in a doc/ subdir, so it would be rather ugly to put empty ones at the top level. > It appears autoreconf doesn't know how to pass the "--foreign" flag to > automake, which makes it ignore the lack of these files. I tried > "autoreconf -W no-gnu", but that doesn't help. You should be able to do this just by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]). Hongliang Wang wrote: > Thanks for your advice. > > I checked in Makefile.in Makefile.am and configure.ac. And also an execute > file Note that Makefile.in is generated so you shouldn't check that in. If in doubt, look at the comments at the top of the file, as generated files usually say "# filename generated by foo x.yz from bar". Brian