Re: autoreconf is recursive

[Bruno Haible]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> It would be nice if you could make the $AUTO* variables overridable on a
> case by case basis.  Tools are named differently at places, e.g.,
> autoconf25.

Will this work for the situation that you have in mind?

Bruno


*** gnulib-tool.orig 11 Jan 2006 13:03:25 -0000      1.99
--- gnulib-tool 11 Jan 2006 16:28:36 -0000
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*** 38,47 ****
  # You can set AUTOMAKEPATH to empty if automake 1.9.x is already in your PATH.
  AUTOMAKEPATH=
  
! AUTOCONF="${AUTOCONFPATH}autoconf"
! ACLOCAL="${AUTOMAKEPATH}aclocal"
! AUTOMAKE="${AUTOMAKEPATH}automake"
! AUTORECONF="${AUTOCONFPATH}autoreconf"
  
  # func_usage
  # outputs to stdout the --help usage message.
--- 38,57 ----
  # You can set AUTOMAKEPATH to empty if automake 1.9.x is already in your PATH.
  AUTOMAKEPATH=
  
! # If you didn't set AUTOCONFPATH and AUTOMAKEPATH, you can also set the
! # variables AUTOCONF, ACLOCAL, AUTOMAKE, AUTORECONF individually.
! if test -z "${AUTOCONF}" || test -n "${AUTOCONFPATH}"; then
!   AUTOCONF="${AUTOCONFPATH}autoconf"
! fi
! if test -z "${ACLOCAL}" || test -n "${AUTOMAKEPATH}"; then
!   ACLOCAL="${AUTOMAKEPATH}aclocal"
! fi
! if test -z "${AUTOMAKE}" || test -n "${AUTOMAKEPATH}"; then
!   AUTOMAKE="${AUTOMAKEPATH}automake"
! fi
! if test -z "${AUTORECONF}" || test -n "${AUTOCONFPATH}"; then
!   AUTORECONF="${AUTOCONFPATH}autoreconf"
! fi
  
  # func_usage
  # outputs to stdout the --help usage message.