Severity: wishlist [CC:ing bug-automake so that I won't forget about this issue]
On 08/17/2012 01:04 AM, Jeff Johnston wrote: > If a configure.ac file is edited and the following added: > > LT_INIT > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL > I think you shouldn't add both, BTW; AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is the obsolescent name for LT_INIT AFAIK. > The make can fail when it tries to do an automake and ltmain.sh > is missing. > Note that even "automake --add-missing" wouldn't help you here, because the ltmain.sh is provided by Libtool, not Automake, and installed by 'libtoolize', not by 'automake'. Still, for other, similar use cases (e.g., adding AC_PROG_CC_C_O or AM_PROG_AR to configure.ac) your request sounds valid. > How does one set up automake to use the --add-missing parameter > automatically? > Currently, one can't. > It's not recognized as an option to use with AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, > Well, automake could be enhanced to recognize a "add-missing" option in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE too. This would seem a good idea, but I need to think about it more carefully, in case there is some a subtle reason for the current beaviour, and against the proposed enhancement. > and the generated call to AUTOMAKE in the Makefile does not use > an option variable that can be set. > > Should this be used by default in the Makefile when maintainer > mode is enabled? > I don't understand this question, sorry. What do you refer to with "this" here? > -- Jeff J. > Thanks, Stefano