On 2012-01-10 15:41 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2012 18:49:28 Eric Blake wrote: > > On 01/09/2012 03:46 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > > It creates the needed files, but exits with status 1. Is there anyway > > > to generate config.sub without relying on Automake, > > > > Use 'cp'. That's all the more automake was doing when it outputs lines > > about installing helper files. > > i wish automake (and gettext) had modes where you could say "i just want you > to install XXX helpers for me)". copying things by hand is error prone due to > changing install paths across versions and distros. > > automake --foreign -c -f --tools="config.sub config.guess" CCing bug-automake. This feature would be generally useful: another example for automake-using packages is that at "foreign" strictness the INSTALL file is not copied, but maintainers may still want to include it. Perhaps a simpler and more flexible option is to add an option to automake which prints out the location where it finds these files, similar to aclocal --print-ac-dir. Something like (for example) % automake --print-snippet-dir /usr/share/automake-1.11 Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
