Re: Conditional AC_CONFIG_FILES

[Brian]

Thanks for the pointers Ralf. I had tried every thinkable method (at least,
thinkable by me =) before I wrote to this list. I prepared a modified
version of GNU Hello that you can run automake on. It has four differing
methods (inc. yours) that all fail for me:
http://whisper.colorado.edu/hello-2.2.autoconf.tar.gz

The error I typically get is this:
~/Desktop/hello-2.2 $ automake (or autoreconf)
configure.ac:56: required file `$test.in' not found

Where I specified AC_CONFIG_FILES([$test]). It just looks for a literal no
matter what!

I'm using autoconf macros and its failing in automake, so I don't know which
list to write to, of course. I have autoconf 1.4.4, automake 1.9.6 and m4
1.4.4.

I looked on Google Code Search, and I did find examples where people were
apparently successful with this. Those methods do not work here.
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file:configure\.in|configure\.ac%20AC_CONFIG_FILES\(\[.*\$.*\]\)

/Brian

The error I get is typically:
automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output
automake: Did you forget AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) in configure.ac?

Because it looks for what I enter into AC_CONFIG_FILES as a literal.




On 2/20/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:41:27AM CET:
> > * Brian wrote on Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:53:36PM CET:
> > > I *really* want to be able to conditionally specify the files that go
> into
> > > AC_CONFIG_FILES.
> >
> > You can execute
> >   ./config.status --file=FILE[:TEMPLATE]
> >
> > on files that you have not listed with AC_CONFIG_FILES.
>
> Erm, and you can also do
>   if $some_condition; then
>     AC_CONFIG_FILES([some_file])
>   fi
>
> See here:
> <
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/config_002estatus-Invocation.html
> >
> <
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Configuration-Actions.html
> >
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf



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