Stepan answered the rest already.. * Daryl Lee wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:15:26PM CEST: > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > When I run autoscan in the "foonly" project, freshly untarred, I get a > > > warning: "missing AC_PREREQ wanted by: autoscan". > > > > Acknowledged. What a useless warning message. > > Took me a while to understand that it wants you to put > > AC_PREREQ(2.59) > > into configure.ac. Put it right after AC_INIT. > I gather from yur suggestion above that the "missing" refers to "missing > from your config.in file--add them", as opposed to "missing from my > repository of macros." Nope. Missing from your configure.ac file. It should look like this: | AC_INIT([foobar], [0.1], [bug-foobar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]) | AC_PREREQ([2.59]) | ... | AC_OUTPUT > The others reported as missing are > AC_CHECK_DECLS, I've never seen real-world use of AC_CHECK_DECLS. > AC_CHECK_HEADERS, Some headers are good to check. But usually only if you know - that they might not exist on some systems - but the declarations will the be in another header on that system. > AC_C_VOLATILE, > AC_FUNC_FORK, Use these if (and only if) your source is prepared to cope with the failure condition. > AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE, > AC_FUNC_MALLOC, > AC_FUNC_REALLOC, Use these only after you've written the replacement functions (I'd just get them from gnulib if you care). > and AC_TYPE_SIGNAL. Can't hurt. For all of these, corresponding documentation is provided in the Autoconf manual. You should read about each one you use, so you use them correctly. > > > 3. Is there a better startup guide than the referenced text? > > > > Above mentioned tutorial is good, although still in the works. > > I'll spend some time with it tonight. Have fun! Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf