Re: AC_INIT vs AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in ac2.52 and am1.5...?

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Whitworth <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

 Matthew> The first difference I noticed is that autoconf's new
 Matthew> AC_INIT macro takes arguments that I used to include
 Matthew> in automake's AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE macro.  The autoconf
 Matthew> manual [1] specifies AC_INIT's syntax as

 Matthew> AC_INIT(package, version, bug-report-address)

 Matthew> and makes no mention of any automake macros.  However,
 Matthew> the new automake manual [2] seems to suggest old
 Matthew> autoconf 2.13 AC_INIT syntax:

 Matthew> AC_INIT(src/hello.c)
 Matthew> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello, 1.3.11)

Automake 1.5 still supports Autoconf 2.13.  The above syntax
will work with Autoconf 2.13 and 2.5x.

[...]

 Matthew> both autoconf and automake?  Should AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE be used in a
 Matthew> configure.ac along with the new AC_INIT syntax (which seems like an
 Matthew> unneccesary and dangerous redundancy)?

If you use Autoconf 2.5x, just use the new syntax:

 AC_INIT(hello, 1.3.11, address@hidden)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/hello.c)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello, 1.3.11)

 Matthew> AC_OUTPUT seems to suffer from a similar syntax
 Matthew> out-of-syncness, but I'll leave that for later.

Similar reasons.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz