Re: What to check into repository?

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On Dec 4, 2007 10:35 AM, Hongliang Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here is the my autogen.sh
> ==================================================
> #!/bin/sh
> # Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
[snip]
> for dir in .
> do
>         echo processing $dir
>         (cd $dir; \
>         aclocalinclude="$ACLOCAL_FLAGS"; \
>         aclocal $aclocalinclude; \
>         autoheader; automake --add-missing --gnu $am_opt; autoconf)
> done

Why don't you just use autoreconf - which does exactly what autogen.sh
does, just better?  From the automake manual:

   Many packages come with a script called `bootstrap.sh' or
`autogen.sh', that will just call `aclocal', `libtoolize', `gettextize'
or `autopoint', `autoconf', `autoheader', and `automake' in the right
order.  Actually this is precisely what `autoreconf' can do for you.
If your package has such a `bootstrap.sh' or `autogen.sh' script,
consider using `autoreconf'.  That should simplify its logic a lot
(less things to maintain, yum!), it's even likely you will not need the
script anymore, and more to the point you will not call `aclocal'
directly anymore.

(Node: Future of aclocal)