Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:03 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > MYDIR=$(top_builddir) > > include $(MYDIR)/aminclude.am > > This should have the same effect as > > include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am OK, you're right, I didn't

Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > MYDIR=$(top_builddir) > include $(MYDIR)/aminclude.am This should have the same effect as include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am which Tom is trying to avoid because it is not portable. If you want to portably include (non-automake

Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:02 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Tom" == Tom Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> Hi, > Tom> I use some m4 macros in my configure.ac that produce a file called > Tom> aminclude.am in the top build directory. In my Makefile.am files I try > Tom> to i

Re: 5.9 The Future of `aclocal'

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> > "autoreconf" does not provide >> > a way of convincing automake to run with the options, "--gnu" [...] Bruce> configure.ac has: Bruce> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.6 gnits dist-bzip2]) If you are using gnits, you don't want --gnu. Br

Re: 5.9 The Future of `aclocal'

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Stepan" == Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stepan> Hi, Stepan> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:15:52PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: >> On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:53 pm, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> > Sure it does. "--gnu" comes from AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am or from >> > AM_INIT_AUT

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: >> ... Maybe the autoreconf documentation should point to the Gettext >> manual. Care to patch the Autoconf manual? > > Below. :-) Thanks. I rewrote it a bit, and added a proper cross refe

Re: "include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am" is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Tom" == Tom Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Hi, Tom> I use some m4 macros in my configure.ac that produce a file called Tom> aminclude.am in the top build directory. In my Makefile.am files I try Tom> to include this An automake include is inlined when automake runs, i.e., long