Am 26.10.2018 um 17:06 schrieb Stuart Caie: > Hello, > > the automake macro AM_ICONV requires the auxiliary program config.rpath, > however automake --add-missing will not install it.
That's because it's not automake's file. Automake has no way of knowing where to get that file from, nor a responsibility to do anything about it. > Technically, AM_ICONV is not distributed with automake, and neither is > is config.rpath. However, automake recognises config.rpath as a special > file to distribute nonetheless. That's not really automake doing that. That's done by gettextize and the autofoo code it adds to your project. > If not, could there be some mechanism added to automake so other > packages can tell it to add their required files? e.g. could gettext.m4 > which defines AM_ICONV include some special macro that tells automake > that config.rpath is needed and can be found in <location> ? Such mechanisms exist, and from the look of it, gettext is _already_ using them.
