On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2000 20:40, Steve Robbins wrote: > > 1. Automake inserts a makefile variable "TAR" into every Makefile.in > > generated. Upstream has "TAR = gtar", but I have "TAR = tar", greatly > > (and needlessly) inflating the .diff. The value of TAR is hardcoded into > > automake itself. > > I don't believe it. I think a variable "TAR" is defined in Makefile.am.
Well then, I invite you to check out the sources of any automake'ified package and report back to us. > > Unfortunately, one of the things run is "aclocal", but without the > > necessary "-I m4" flag, causing the build to fail. [Amusingly, the build > > would work if automake was not installed, because the "missing" script > > will just touch the files to get the timestamps in the right order.] > > In this case aclocal needs macros from other *.m4 file than aclocal.m4. These > additional files *should* be in upstream sources, if not try to contact with > upstream authors(s). Yes, the files are present in the upstream source. That is not the problem. The problem is that automake does not know that I need to specify a "-I" flag to aclocal when it generates these rules in Makefile.in. > You can define it, for example. as "preconfigure" in debian/rules because you > have to use it just once. Yes, that is a good idea. -S
