Re: Error because README is missing

[Andreas Schwab]

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:

> However, I actually had a second error that I didn't mention because I
> figured it would be the same problem... but it's not.
>
> The second error is this:
>
>   $ automake --add-missing --no-force
>   configure.in:398: required file `build.sh.in' not found
>
> This file is being created with this in my configure.in file:
>
>   if test -f $srcdir/build.sh.in; then
>     AC_CONFIG_FILES(build.sh)
>   fi

AC_CONFIG_FILES is a declaration-like macro, you can't execute it
conditionallyon the shell level.  If you want to make it conditional on
the existence of the input file you need to do that on the m4 level.

Untested code ahead.

m4_syscmd([test -f build.sh.in])dnl
m4_if(m4_sysval, 0, [AC_CONFIG_FILES(build.sh)])

Andreas.

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