Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:49:08PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I've been looking at autogen.sh some more. >> >> Does anyone know why the lines: >> >> # FIXME: automake doesn't like that there's no Makefile.am >> automake -a -c -f || true >> >> are present at all? Since there is no Makefile.am, it looks like >> automake only creates a few files and aborts. >> >> Doing an experiment, I checked out a new version of trunk twice. In >> both cases I ran md5sum on all the files in the top level directory. In >> case 1, I didn't change anything and ran autogen.sh and then ran md5sum >> again. In case 2, I commented out the automake line above. >> >> As you can see below, automake only adds standard 'config.guess', >> 'config.sub', and 'missing' scripts. >> >> The real purpose of automake is to create a Makefile.in for configure. >> GRUB doesn't use it for that. Is there any reason to not just add the >> three files to the bzr repository and remove the automake line from >> autogen.sh? >> > > These files do change from time to time, in ways that are important; for > example, config.guess and config.sub are updated to support new > architectures or new variants of existing architectures. It's best to > have this done automatically rather than doing it once manually and then > forgetting about it. > > We could have a temporary directory in which we run automake, just for > the purpose of getting hold of these files. Perhaps something like this: > > rm -rf automake-tmp > mkdir -p automake-tmp > cat >automake-tmp/configure.ac <<EOF > AC_INIT([temporary], [0.1]) > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE > AC_CANONICAL_BUILD > AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) > EOF > touch automake-tmp/Makefile.am > (cd automake-tmp && aclocal && automake -a -c -f --foreign) > cp -a automake-tmp/config.guess automake-tmp/config.sub \ > automake-tmp/install-sh automake-tmp/missing \ > . > rm -rf automake-tmp > > I don't know whether this is worth it, but it would be possible. > > Why can't Makefile.in moved to Makefile.am and then just let automake mostly copy Makefile.am to Makefile.in ? (I'm automake newbie), just an idea
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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