On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
Try starting with ./autogen.sh and see how it goes.
Thanks, that works.
I think this step should be added at least to README-alpha
Definitely. README-alpha is not a very obvious name either if you're building from CVS.
I attach a patch to simplify the automake rebuilding logic. It addresses two points:
1. Use autoreconf instead of calling all the autotools.2. In order to make this work, delete the workaround for an old automake bug in Makefile.am, and just use AC_LOCAL_AMFLAGS. This workaround is unnecessary with at least automake 1.7. It no longer works with automake 1.4. I don't know whether it works with 1.6, which is no longer packaged in my GNU/Linux distribution.
-- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | traddutore, v.t. traditore (Anon)
Index: Makefile.am =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/grep/grep/Makefile.am,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 Makefile.am --- Makefile.am 29 Apr 2005 10:37:09 -0000 1.19 +++ Makefile.am 11 Feb 2008 16:54:19 -0000 @@ -5,21 +5,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = TODO README README-alpha -# We should be able to just define `ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = --acdir=m4', -# but this runs afoul of a bug in automake 1. -# The following hack works around this bug by creating acinclude.m4 manually. -ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -M4DIR = $(srcdir)/m4 -ACINCLUDE_INPUTS = $(M4DIR)/decl.m4 $(M4DIR)/djgpp.m4 $(M4DIR)/dosfile.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/envsep.m4 $(M4DIR)/error.m4 $(M4DIR)/gettext.m4 $(M4DIR)/glibc.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/header.m4 $(M4DIR)/init.m4 $(M4DIR)/install.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/inttypes_h.m4 $(M4DIR)/isc-posix.m4 $(M4DIR)/largefile.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/lcmessage.m4 $(M4DIR)/malloc.m4 $(M4DIR)/mbstate_t.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/missing.m4 $(M4DIR)/progtest.m4 $(M4DIR)/realloc.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/regex.m4 $(M4DIR)/sanity.m4 $(M4DIR)/strerror_r.m4 \ - $(M4DIR)/uintmax_t.m4 $(M4DIR)/ulonglong.m4 $(M4DIR)/xstrtoumax.m4 -$(srcdir)/acinclude.m4 : $(ACINCLUDE_INPUTS) - cat $(ACINCLUDE_INPUTS) >$(srcdir)/acinclude.m4 +ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 # make cvs-clean blatantly stolen from KDE CVS ;) cvs-clean: Index: autogen.sh =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/grep/grep/autogen.sh,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 autogen.sh --- autogen.sh 18 Aug 2006 21:16:07 -0000 1.8 +++ autogen.sh 11 Feb 2008 16:54:19 -0000 @@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ # Let auto* do its work if \ -aclocal -I m4 && -autoheader && -automake -a && -autoconf +autoreconf -f -i then echo "Next, run ./configure && make && make check" else
