Re: Configure script not at the root of src directory

2010-03-20 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 09:25 -0700, scleung wrote: Hi, Usually we use autoscan to scan the source directory structure to generate configure.ac file and finally generate configure script in the root of source directory. Now I want to put the scripts including configure to another

Re: Configure script not at the root of src directory

2010-03-20 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 03/20/2010 08:12 AM, Tim Post wrote: With very few exceptions, however, I don't see the use of _not_ dirtying up the source directories with objects and other output if proper cleaning targets exist. Traditionally, there are 2 primary reasons: 1) Multiple builds, e.g. building with

Why PACKAGE_URL is not set ?

2010-03-20 Thread TJ Yang
According to http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Initializing-configure.html I can do a AC_INIT(hello,1.0,[t...@test.com],[tarname],[http://www.test.com]) and expect to have PACKAGE* veritable set accordingly, see Makefile below. But I can't see PACKAGE_URL got defined ? I am

Re: Why PACKAGE_URL is not set ?

2010-03-20 Thread John Calcote
TJ, On 3/20/2010 7:56 PM, TJ Yang wrote: According to http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Initializing-configure.html I can do a AC_INIT(hello,1.0,[t...@test.com],[tarname],[http://www.test.com]) and expect to have PACKAGE* veritable set accordingly, see Makefile below. But I

autoscan

2010-03-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, I ran autoscan and it gives: configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PROG_RANLIB wanted by: ltmain.sh:1601 So i added AC_PROG_RANLIB and ran autoreconf and now it says: autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4