Re: Reverting changes

[Michael Koch]

Am Sonntag, 4. April 2004 22:16 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 21:13, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > Michael Koch wrote:
> > > Am Freitag, 2. April 2004 19:01 schrieb Mark Wielaard:
> > >>- * HACKING: Updated information about regenerating auto* files
> > >> and -    documented the existence of autogen.sh.
> > >
> > > I really wonder if autogen.sh is really needed. We can just use
> > > "autoreconf" too. I tried it and I found no reason yet to dont
> > > use it. When this is properly domentated it should be okay ofr
> > > our usage.
> > >
> > > Any opinions on this ?
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > But I must admit that I haven't looked at the patch that added
> > autogen.sh, so there may be a good reason to have the script
> > instead.
>
> It seems to be a common standard to have a script to generate the
> auto* files from scratch in CVS by that name and some auto CVS
> builders (like jhbuild which Thomas is working on) depend on a script
> with that name. So if someone can come up with a good/working
> autogen.sh then I would love to see it in CVS.

Okay, will provide one tomorrow with version checking before it actually 
runs something for discussion.

> BTW. autoreconf picks up the wrong automake on my system and then
> fails horribly. So some kind of version checking is needed in this
> script.

autoreconf depends on the correct setting of $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOCONF, 
$ACLOCAL, $AUTOHEADER and $LIBTOOLIZE when multiple versions are 
present.


Michael