On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:10 -0600, John Calcote wrote: > When I run autoreconf -i to initialize my project I get the following > output: > > $ autoreconf -i > libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'. > libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh' > libtoolize: You should add the contents of the following files to > `aclocal.m4': > libtoolize: `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/local/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4' > libtoolize: `/usr/local/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4' > configure.ac:16: installing `./compile' > configure.ac:8: installing `./config.guess' > configure.ac:8: installing `./config.sub' > configure.ac:6: installing `./install-sh' > configure.ac:6: installing `./missing' > src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' > > My question: Do I REALLY need to copy all of those .m4 files into my > aclocal.m4 file? If so, why doesn't libtoolize (or aclocal) do that for me? Did you have an aclocal.m4 file before you started? If so, I suspect that aclocal won't touch it in case it contains important stuff you don't want to loose. I believe the ideas is that anything that you need in the way of macros goes in acinclude.m4, and aclocal.m4 is not distributed - it's built by aclocal from the system files as required. If you move your current aclocal.m4 out of the way, hopefully the errors will disappear permanently (aclocal will recognise if an existing aclocal.m4 file was auto-generated and happily overwrite it). Richard _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
