Main prog is configure-generated?

2006-07-13 Thread Micah J. Cowan
r way to handle this sort of thing? Is there a way to tell automake not to try to add extra build rules, but install it as a bin_PROGRAM? -- TIA, Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/

autoconf topicality [was Re: autom4te.cache?]

2006-08-05 Thread Micah J. Cowan
m <http://sources.redhat.com/automake/>. Is it incorrect? I'm guessing that the intention might have been closer to "interoperation between automake, autoconf and other...", but -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/

Re: RFC: "Autotools Introduction" chapter draft (16 pages long)

2006-08-14 Thread Micah J. Cowan
to install as root, but not to build as root, which is why I'll more usually do a make, and then a sudo make install (I imagine you do the same, in practice). If I'm just testing the install, though, I'd probably set DESTDIR or --prefix to something interesting, and do it as make