Hi Laurence, * Laurence Darby wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 06:24:51PM CET: > > I'm just starting to learn autotools, so far I've tried about 1/4 of > 4 tutorials, without much success. Read this one, forget all the others: http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html > Then I RTFM, and overall it's surprisingly good :) > > Starting from scratch, I ran autoscan, but it gave an error message: > autom4te: configure.ac: no such file or directory > autoscan: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 > > It's not an actual problem since configure.scan is generated, but the > error is annoying and unnecessary. True enough. That should be a warning only, and it should not cause autoscan to fail. > $ touch configure.ac && autoscan > > is nice, as the output shows what's going on and it's obvious what to > do next. So my nitpick is that I think the manual should mention to > create an initial empty configure.ac before running autoscan, in part > 3.2. Either above, or this, yes. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf