Re: autoreconf uses aclocal even when not needed
On 03/22/2017 03:15 AM, Max Horn wrote: so I have this project where I use autoconf and libtool, but*not* automake. Turns out that autoreconf insists on using tools from automake anyway, namely by invoking "aclocal" which is part of automake. T It won't do that if you supply your own aclocal.m4, even a trivial one. See, for example, the file autogen.sh in the GNU Emacs master source code. Or perhaps aclocal should be migrated from automake to autoconf? (Perhaps under a different name, to simplify the transition?) Something like that might make sense, if someone had the time to think through all the issues.
Re: autoreconf uses aclocal even when not needed
Hello, On 3/22/17, Max Horn wrote: [snip] > $ autoreconf -vif --no-recursive -I cnf/m4 . > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal -I cnf/m4 --output=aclocal.m4t > Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at > /sw/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. > autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory > > I can "fix" this by installing automake, but this is deeply > unsatisfactory. Is there a better solution? Not sure why this is a big problem, but if you supply aclocal.m4 yourself, autoreconf will not try to run the aclocal program to generate it. Cheers, Nick
autoreconf uses aclocal even when not needed
Hi there, so I have this project where I use autoconf and libtool, but *not* automake. Turns out that autoreconf insists on using tools from automake anyway, namely by invoking "aclocal" which is part of automake. This is what I get: $ autoreconf -vif --no-recursive -I cnf/m4 . autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I cnf/m4 --output=aclocal.m4t Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /sw/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory I can "fix" this by installing automake, but this is deeply unsatisfactory. Is there a better solution? Note that my configure.ac uses AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([cnf/m4]) and so aclocal.m4 ends up looking like this (after stripping out legal headers): m4_ifndef([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [m4_defun([_AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [])m4_defun([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [_AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS($@)])]) m4_include([cnf/m4/ax_check_library.m4]) m4_include([cnf/m4/ax_pthread.m4]) ... Creating such a list of includes (from a naive view point, of course) seems like it should be "trivial" to do, and not require a complex tool like aclocal. But perhaps / likely I am missing something? Or perhaps aclocal should be migrated from automake to autoconf? (Perhaps under a different name, to simplify the transition?) Cheers, Max
