Hi,
Robert Schwebel wrote:
As autoreconf doesn't always recreate all necessary files, do the steps
required to create everything that's needed manually. We also need
config/m4 in order to put the autogenerated m4 files there.
I pretty much have to take your word on that I guess - which I'm happy to do.
It seems in slight contradiction though to your previous statement
encouraging us to stick to the autotools defaults for distribution so as to
allow the tools to do their job and not accidentally miss something by doing
it manually. Is this just a common exception to that rule?
We recently tried to use autoreconf to build the config files from
scratch, but although it works much better than before, we've found some
problems, so let's better stay with the proven old method.
Yes...
However, Marc may be able to elaborate more about the problems; he is
our autotool wizzard :)
I've had problems with the old debian stable a.k.a. sarge and autoreconf
with a normal autoconf/automake/libtool package.
Robert had problems with autoreconf on debian testing (lenny) with a
project using autoconf/automake/libtool + libltdl
Index: config/m4/.secret_world_domination_project
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ config/m4/.secret_world_domination_project
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+
And what is this all about? :-)
Psssst, it's secret! :)
It's just to make sure that config/m4/ is not empty, which would mean
that it would sometimes disappear.
Right - with "AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([config/m4])" in configure.ac we
instruct autoconf to put all autogenerated suff into config/m4, to keep
the root of the project clean. If you run autogen or autoreconf this
directory must be existent, at least with the tool when I collected our
autoconf-skeleton (about 1,5 years ago). This file ensures that this
directory is present.
Marc
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