%% Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 20 Apr 2002 23:03:52 -0400 >> >> the autoconf scripts are constantly pissed at me because I don't >> have a README file when I invoke them to create my configure file; >> they don't seem to understand that while I don't have one _yet_ I >> _will_ have one by the time my package is created.
pe> Autoconf doesn't know about README, so at first blush this appears pe> to be a problem with Automake, not Autoconf. Yes, right, that's an automake thing. Actually, though, automake just warns about that, which is annoying but is apparently not a big deal. Now that's I've gotten a little farther I remember the real problem: some of the files I want to generate are AC_OUTPUT files. This really throws autoconf for a loop since the .in versions don't yet exist when the maintainer runs configure. However, I just thought of a way around this and... Sure enough, it works. Very cool! Assuming that automake continues to just complain but not fatally about these missing files, I should be all set. Thanks :). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
