Re: Re: [Automake] Making a Distribution

[Tom Browder]

Pavel, thanks for timely response.

I'm brand new to using automake/autoconf, and I'm using it to package a 
commercial
distribution of my company's product for a client.  I need the package to work 
on
both a Linux/GNU as well as an SGI/IRIX system.  When I test the distribution 
on the SGI,
the ./configure tries to use the *.am files and I get all kinds of dependency 
problems, and
I don't think my client will have automake or autoconf.  Shouldn't configure 
NOT require
(nor even try to use) autoconf or automake?  If not, why are the files 
automatically packaged
with the distribution?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin <address@hidden>
To: Tom Browder <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Automake] Making a Distribution


>Hello, Tom!
>
>> >From my project build directory I would like to use "make dist" and
>> have ALL .am files removed from the distribution package (which I can
>> do by using the target "dist-hook"), but I can't figure out how to
>> automatically eliminate all dependence on "automake" in the
>> "Makefile.in"s.
>
>Try placing AM_MAINTAINER_MODE into configure.in. The dependencies will be
>commented out unless --enable-maintainer-mode is specified to configure.
>
>But why do you want to remove .am files?
>
>Regards,
>Pavel Roskin
>
>
>