Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] sharutils' autoconfigury]

[Bruce Korb]

On Sunday 10 July 2005 12:40 pm, Bruce Korb wrote:

> > I'm not sure I understand.  The file doesn't have to exist, it only has
> > to be listed as a distributed file in Makefile.am.
> > It should be enough to get the rule in Makefile.in.
> 
> Wrong.  Sorry :-(

P.S. don't sweat it.  It was a good guess.

> > + automake --gnu --add-missing
> > configure.in: installing `config/install-sh'
> > agen5/Makefile.am: installing `config/compile'
> > agen5/Makefile.am: installing `config/depcomp'
> > automake: cannot open < doc/autogen.texi: No such file or directory
> > + exit 1
> > error:  bootstrap failed
> 
> Another kludge:  before running automake, create a totally bogus
> "autogen.texi" file, run automake, then delete it.  Not Good at all.

Hi Stepan,

This works.  However, having "autogen.texi" consist of just
header overhead plus a address@hidden generated.texi'' turned out
not to work either.  Another good guess, but in the end the
texinfo make macros do not detect the @include directive.
Leastwise, not so it shows up in the dependencies.  I could fiddle
with manual dependencies to see how I could get them to a state
where they work once for the first build and never again.
But it is too hard.  I want it simple.  Creating a bogus file
then running automake and then deleting the bogus file; that's
simple, even if dodgy and esthetically displeasing.

Thank you very much for your ideas and help!

Regards, Bruce