On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:50:54PM +0200, Giuseppe Martino wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > The proper way to fix that is to ship a bootstrapped .tar.bz2. > > Ok, I replaced every link with a copy of its normal file > (`config/install-sh' `config/mkinstalldirs' `config/missing' `./COPYING' & > Co.) > using: > > for I in $(find -type l);do ORIG=$(ls -l $I | awk '{print $10}'); rm $I; cp > $ORIG $I;done; > > Now upstream tarball doesn't depend on any file in /usr/share/automake-1.9/*
Please don't do this, but use make dist . (Or, even better "make distcheck".) This maketarget is present in your autotools-generated Makefile, and makes sure your tarball is sane. Bye, Joost
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