On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:53:37AM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote: > On 27.02.2005, at 01:14, Sven Neumann wrote: > > >We would probably have to add this to all Makefile.am in the app > >subdirs then?! > > Only to those containing sources which refer to automatically > generated headers, about 3 or 4. No, we should add it to all of them. In fact, it already *is* in some of them. > >The tarball can be built w/o these tools and we don't want it to > >depend on them. So it would be wrong to move these checks into > >configure. Our english is actually rather carefully chosen... > > So what do I have to do to make the sources self-contained? ./autogen.sh on one system, make dist it, and unpack and build from your disted tarball for the rest of your builds. Or just do your due diligence and be consistent about all your dependencies on the targets you build on. -Yosh