I'm not sure what portion of this issue is automake, and what portion is autoconf. NTP is a "nested" auto* package. It contains a subpackage, sntp, which is designed to be separable from the rest of the tree. This means that if a library is needed by both "trees", I put it as a subdir under ntp/sntp/... so it is easily visible to both packages. I am also converting the entire system to using AutoGen and AutoOpts, and this is where I am noticing a rub with aclocal. The ntp package has a number of aclocal .m4 files that it needs. The sntp subpackage needs none of these .m4 files. Both ntp and sntp use the libopts/ stuff from AutoOpts, which needs (and provides) libopts.m4 . I have this file in the m4/ subdir of both packages. If I go to the top of the tree and run "autoreconf -vfi" the resulting Makefile.in files under sntp/ fail because they contain generated dependencies for .m4 files from ntp's m4/ subdir that are both not needed and not present. To fix this, I have to re-run autoreconf in ntp/sntp, and this seems lame. It is extra lame as it's one thing for me to have to remember to do this on a fresh tree, but when autoreconf gets triggered because of a change to configure.ac or a change to a .m4 file or ... then my next build fails because the bogus dependencies are added so I have to manually re-run autoreconf in the sntp/ subtree. Suggestions would be welcome... H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
