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Re: Problem with automake
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Stefan Heinzmann <stefan_heinzmann at yahoo dot com>, newlib <newlib at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:03:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: Problem with automake
- References: <20020426122125.23723.qmail@web11206.mail.yahoo.com> <1019847361.28811.36.camel@toggle>
- Reply-to: newlib at sources dot redhat dot com
Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 08:21, Stefan Heinzmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> Hello
>
> > I understand that when I change any configure.in or Automake.am in one
> > of the subdirectories in the newlib source, I have to rerun autoconf
> > and automake from the toplevel directory and it will find and process
> > all respective files in the subdirectory tree. Is this the case?
> >
>
> Confusingly enough, configure.in in the top-level directory (src/) is
> NOT an autoconf file. Running autoconf in this directory will produce
> an empty configure file. Don't run any of the autotools in this
> directory. You shouldn't need to make any newlib-related changes here
> anyway.
>
Which confuses just about all newbies. And has been a PIMB ever so
occasionally still. Isn't it about time to rename these top-level
Cygnus style configuration scripts to help the innocent?
Earnie.