I'll apologize in advance for asking questions instead of providing answers. Paul's posting gave rise to several questions for me. Hopefully my posting in this thread won't be off-topic; if it's off-topic for the thread then hopefully follow-ups can be re-titled.
"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote around 03 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm using autoconf 2.54 / automake 1.7 / gettext 0.11.5. I am not clear on what package you, Paul, are trying to build. > My source tree contains no derived files at all; you must install the > above tools before you can build from a CVS checkout. > > By hand I need to run these tools to get the tree "ready to build": > > autopoint > aclocal -I config > autoheader > automake --add-missing > autoconf > ./configure > make update I have never heard of `autopoint' before and wonder if someone could describe what it does, what is its role with the Autotools. Or provide pointers to where I can educate myself, of course. > ("make update" grabs public files from ftp.gnu.org, translation files, > etc. using wget). This is the main reason i am writing. I observed the need for this recently and so did others (on another List). This "update" target in a Makefile -- how does it work? Where can I see that? Is this generated by an Automake run on input files ('Makefile.am's)? ??? Thanks! Soren A
