Re: how do distribute automake free code?

[Jim Edwards]

Eric,

On the first question I guess I didn't state it very well - what you
describe is what I am doing.
On the second I found that by adding arguments -c -i for libtoolize and -a
-c for automake  in the bootstrap,
I was able to add the additional files that make was looking for.   It seems
that that takes care of it.   As for writing to the automake list instead of
the
autoconf list - wouldn't it make more sense to have a autotools list since
they are all interrelated anyway?

Thanks
Jim

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/20/2011 10:50 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:
> > As I understand it, I should be able to bootstrap on a single system,
> check
> > in the resulting configure and Makefile.in files then on other systems
> > I should only need to run configure.
>
> That's not my understanding.
>
> Rather, you should be able to bootstrap on a single system, check in ALL
> source files used to perform the bootstrap process (including the
> Makefile.am that you used to bootstrap), then on other systems you can
> run configure without having to re-run automake.  That is, the end user
> need not have all the tools present, but _does_ need access to the same
> source files as the developer (who _did_ have all the right tools), as
> well as the intermediate files that the developer's bootstrap process
> added into the mix.
>
> >   But this doesn't seem to be working,
> > I get something like ...
> >
> > cd . && /bin/sh /ptmp/jedwards/glimmer-cism/gc2_trunk/missing --run
> > aclocal-1.10
>
> That's working as designed.  It says that _if_ automake is installed,
> then use it to bring the dependencies up to date, and if it is not
> present, then continue on with the build as if the timestamps had
> already been updated correctly.  It is not a hard-and-fast dependency on
> automake, but _does_ imply that your tarball includes the 'missing'
> script (which should have been placed into your tarball automatically
> during your bootstrap process).
>
> Meanwhile, this is the autoconf list; but your question is about
> automake.  You may get better answers by asking on the automake list.
>
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