Re: include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Tom == Tom Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Hi, Tom I use some m4 macros in my configure.ac that produce a file called Tom aminclude.am in the top build directory. In my Makefile.am files I try Tom to include this An automake include is inlined when automake runs, i.e., long before

Re: automake/autoreconf: Incomprehensible error messages bugs

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: ... Maybe the autoreconf documentation should point to the Gettext manual. Care to patch the Autoconf manual? Below. :-) Thanks. I rewrote it a bit, and added a proper cross reference

Re: include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 09:02 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: Tom == Tom Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Hi, Tom I use some m4 macros in my configure.ac that produce a file called Tom aminclude.am in the top build directory. In my Makefile.am files I try Tom to include this

Re: include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: MYDIR=$(top_builddir) include $(MYDIR)/aminclude.am This should have the same effect as include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am which Tom is trying to avoid because it is not portable. If you want to portably include (non-automake)

Re: include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am is ignored by automake

2005-02-02 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:03 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:46:28AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: MYDIR=$(top_builddir) include $(MYDIR)/aminclude.am This should have the same effect as include $(top_builddir)/aminclude.am OK, you're right, I didn't read

Re: 5.9 The Future of `aclocal'

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Stepan == Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stepan Hi, Stepan On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 04:15:52PM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:53 pm, Andreas Schwab wrote: Sure it does. --gnu comes from AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am or from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, and

Re: 5.9 The Future of `aclocal'

2005-02-02 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
Bruce == Bruce Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] autoreconf does not provide a way of convincing automake to run with the options, --gnu [...] Bruce configure.ac has: Bruce AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.6 gnits dist-bzip2]) If you are using gnits, you don't want --gnu. Bruce and I invoked