Hi Eric, (et.al.), I've run into a possible bug in the Autoconf (2.62, and previous) package while I've been playing with it lately. 1. The manual indicates in sec 5.2, pg 39, bottom of the page (Feb 08 2.61 version) that autoconf ships with a version of install-sh that you can use if you wish. I believe this to be an inaccurate statement, as no install-sh script actually gets installed with the autoconf package (at least not lately). 2. autoreconf --install is supposed to install missing files, or rather pass appropriate options to the tools that it runs to install missing files. This works fine with automake, which supports --add-missing, but autoconf has no such option to install missing files (even if it had one to install). 3. If you're setting up an Autoconf-only project (no Automake or Libtool), and you use the AC_PROG_INSTALL macro, then the configure script generated by autoconf requires install-sh to exist, but the Autoconf package it doesn't provide it or a way to install it if it's missing. Furthermore, since you haven't used the AM initialization macros in your configure.ac file, autoreconf --install won't even run automake --add-missing (--copy). Is this an oversight? Regards, John _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
