Re: delete aclocal.m4? keep generated files on cvs server? enforce specefic automake/conf version?

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:39:48PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>> >>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
> <snip>
>> 
>> This whole script (including its last part) can be replaced by
>> 
>>   autoreconf -im
>> 
>> (I'd use -vfim, though.)
>
> autoreconf has a habit of doing silly things like running autopoint,
> which then cheerfully adds a bunch of gunk to the source tree which
> you didn't want. I've never seen it actually do what I wanted, and
> frankly, it's far too complicated for what should be a trivial script.

It does that only when you ask for 'gettext'.  On most modern
machines, esp. on Debian, you should replace

  AM_GNU_GETTEXT

with

  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1]) # or appropriate version 
  AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])

and thinks will be peachier.

- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ address@hidden