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Re: required file `build-aux/compile' not found


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: required file `build-aux/compile' not found
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:39:12 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

* Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:35:21PM CEST:
> 1. should I always invoke automake with --add-missing?

No, once is sufficient.

> 2. will automake notice that it has a newer version of something for
> build-aux and tell me or do I need to check that myself every once in a
> while? is there something like gnulib-update for build-aux?

Use '--add-missing --force-missing' every once in a while; see here
<http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Invoking-Automake>
for more information.

For fully autotooled projects, autoreconf (which also has a --force
option) can do update all the Autoconf and Automake files for you.
<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/autoreconf-Invocation.html>
I have not checked whether that works for you.  If you need to pass
arguments to aclocal for a manual invocation, put them in
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in the toplevel Makefile.am so autoreconf finds them.

Cheers,
Ralf




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