bug#12219: Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE? (was: Re: How to automatically get missing files when changing configure.ac?)
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
Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE? (was: Re: How to automatically get missing files when changing configure.ac?)
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
Re: Could the --add-missing option be supported in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE?
On 08/17/2012 07:03 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: 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. Ok, the lines above were part of a bug report for the Eclipse CDT autotools plug-in and I just copied it over. 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'. The end-user ended up using autoreconf -i. In that case, would it make sense for maintainer mode to run autoreconf -i? 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? I meant the --add-missing option when calling automake. -- Jeff J. Thanks, Stefano
