>>> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> %% Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Untested code ahead. >>> m4_syscmd([test -f build.sh.in])dnl >>> m4_if(m4_sysval, 0, [AC_CONFIG_FILES(build.sh)]) ad> Bad idea: side effects are incompatible with the (autom4te) cache. ad> If the environment changes but not the sources of configure, it ad> won't be regenerated. Similarly with what Automake needs to ad> trace. > OK :-(. > I need a way to have a file marked as a config file, but not have > configure (or automake) fail if the .in input file doesn't exist. > How can I do this? Hm... What is the service you are expecting? You say that configure shouldn't fail, but if it's a config file, configure is expected to fail. Unless you do mean configure, and not config.status?