On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
According to Benoit SIGOURE on 10/1/2007 5:30 AM:By the way, I have a question to the list, AC_CANONICAL_HOST implies AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, maybe this should be mentionned in the documentation?Why not propose a patch?
Done before you asked :)
Also, is it normal that I absolutely need to use automake in order to use AC_CANONICAL_*?No. Autoconf also ships with a version of install-sh, so if you reallywant to avoid automake, then you can manually add the install-sh fromautoconf into your project rather than requiring automake to install itfor you. Automake merely makes the task easier.
Alright but the problem ATM is that configure complains that install- sh is missing when one runs it. Wouldn't it be better to report that install-sh is missing at autoconf time? This would make it possible to tell "you can cp install-sh from /path/to/where/autoconf/install/ has/put/it". Or if this isn't possible, I think the error message given by configure should make it clear that the user can (and actually should) copy install-sh from autoconf. I had the feeling that I had done something wrong, and manually copying install-sh would have felt like a "dirty workaround" whereas it's the right thing to do.
Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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