Hi, I am a newbie in autoconf, just trying to create my first project using the tools. Spent a lot of time understanding why autoreconf finishes with error:
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal > autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool > autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf > autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader > autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --no-force > configure.ac:3: installing `./install-sh' > configure.ac:3: installing `./missing' > configure.ac:4: required file `config.h.in' not found > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 autoheader completed without error, so config.h.in should exists... Finally I found the cause of the problem. Here is my configure.ac file: AC_PREREQ([2.66]) AC_INIT([autoheader-bug], [0.1], [bug-autoconf@gnu.org]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([ foreign -Wall -Werror ]) AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([ config.h ]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([ Makefile ]) AC_OUTPUT The problem caused by a space before config.h. autoheader successfully created ".in" file (note: it is a hidden file), but automake looks for "config.h.in". autoheader incorrectly gets name of the first file: # We template only the first CONFIG_HEADER. $config_h =~ s/ .*//; Deleting everything starting from the first space is a bad idea. Something like this works better: $config_h =~ s/\A\s*(\S+).*\z/$1/; See all the files in the attached archive. It includes configure.ac, Makefile.am, two scripts (to run autoreconf and clean the directory), and autoreconf output. I run it on Fedora Linux 14 (x86_64), autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.66 (autoconf-2.66-2.fc14.noarch). --Van
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