Hi Kristis, Sorry for the delay -- the list server was/is having some issues. * Kristis Makris wrote on Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:02:58AM CET: > Hello. Is there a way to tell autoconf to ignore failures by AC_OUTPUT > to create a file ? Right now, if one .in file is missing, autoconf > refuses to continue. > > This feature could be useful when one is maintaining private sources > that need help from autoconf to autogenerate some Makefiles, but yet > should not be part of an official release of a project. These sources > could be for example a prototype of a researcher that does not want to > release his source. This prototype could be used by an autoconf-managed > project as part of testing, but should not be part of the public source > distribution. What you could do is just not list these files in AC_CONFIG_FILES. Then you need to adjust your build steps so that after configure is run, you do ./config.status extra/Makefile extra2/Makefile manually; if you use Automake (and don't disable dependency tracking) you'll want to append `depfiles' to that line as well, and do a automake extra/Makefile extra2/Makefile after the regular automake. But all of this is very brittle and error-prone. You're probably easier off to have the developer install Autoconf and Automake, and have him change one SUBDIRS line in Makefile.am and a couple of lines in configure.ac. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
