On Sunday 26 November 2000 21:17, Steve Robbins wrote: > 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.
Sorry, you right. I had to missing something. > 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. I think automake never knows what *.m4 files are needed by automake. Mariusz -- Mariusz Przygodzki | Good judgement comes from experience. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Experience comes from bad judgement. http://www.dune.home.pl | GPG KeyID: 0x42FAD771 GPG Fingerprint: 1990 F07B FFB4 BE0B FF26 10C2 BE2B 965C 42FA D771