Re: canonical autogen.sh?

[Tim Van Holder]

> I really like the autogen.sh file that comes with most GNOME 
> programs, and
> steal it for many of my own programs.  This sort of thing is 
> quite useful
> for people using tools like automake and autoconf.
> 
> Has there been any consideration of putting together a
> "standard" autogen.sh script and including it with automake?

Not really possible.
An autogen script is supposed to run automake, autoconf,
libtoolize etc where needed.  But 'where needed' is very
project-dependent.  For example, usually 'aclocal -I m4' is
correct, but not all packages use (or even have) an 'm4'
directory.
Similarly, libtoolize must only be run if a package uses
libtool, and autoconf in all dirs with a configure.ac.  These
two could be automated though (grep A[MC]_PROG_LIBTOOL and find
-name configure.ac).