On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 01:37:43PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Roger> When automake runs, I'm getting this:
> Roger> Running automake --gnu ...
> Roger> configure.ac: 704: required file `src/main/gimpprint-config.in' not found
> Roger> configure.ac: 704: required file `src/main/gimpprint.pc.in' not found
>
> Roger> The two files do not exist because they are generated by
> Roger> configure, and then processed by config.status. Is there any
> Roger> way to tell automake that these files are /supposed/ to be
> Roger> missing?
>
> Not right now.
>
> Does config.status find these files in the build tree? That would
> surprise me. (Or more precisely it would be another autoconf change I
> haven't kept up with.)
>
> OTOH, if you're building the files in the source tree, isn't it
> incorrect to build them in configure?
The files in question are created by configure itself with m4 macros
that output customised shell script/.pc files. They contain @replaceme@
statements for substitution by config.status.
They will always be present for config.status due to being created by
configure. They are removed by distclean.
I don't think this is common (or good?) practice, but allows generation
of complex shell script as you can use m4 to make it at autoconf time
using e.g. m4_shift and recursion to generate the template. I have also
been trying to get m4 to generate m4 code, to embed in and then output
from configure, but it got too messy!
Regards,
Roger
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