Re: really small nitpick

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Laurence,

* Laurence Darby wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 06:24:51PM CET:
> 
> I'm just starting to learn autotools, so far I've tried about 1/4 of
> 4 tutorials, without much success.

Read this one, forget all the others:
http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html

> Then I RTFM, and overall it's surprisingly good :)
> 
> Starting from scratch, I ran autoscan, but it gave an error message:
> autom4te: configure.ac: no such file or directory
> autoscan: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> 
> It's not an actual problem since configure.scan is generated, but the
> error is annoying and unnecessary. 

True enough.  That should be a warning only, and it should not cause
autoscan to fail. 

> $ touch configure.ac && autoscan
> 
> is nice, as the output shows what's going on and it's obvious what to
> do next.  So my nitpick is that I think the manual should mention to
> create an initial empty configure.ac before running autoscan, in part
> 3.2.

Either above, or this, yes.

Cheers,
Ralf