Re: Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-24 Thread Bryan Bennetts
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 06:54:50 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bryan Bennetts wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:01:21PM CEST: > > > > If I do include the aclocal.m4, the configure *still* kicks off > > > > automake because of a subdirs file that is created by configure being > > > > newer than t

Re: Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-23 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bryan Bennetts wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 05:01:21PM CEST: > > > > > If I do include the aclocal.m4, the configure *still* kicks off automake > > > because of a subdirs file that is created by configure being newer than > > > the configure.in, which the Makefile.in is dependant on. > > > > Wha

Re: Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-23 Thread Bryan Bennetts
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 14:45:33 Brian Dessent wrote: > I think the real question is how are you generating this distribution > tarball?  You should be using "make dist" and it should automatically > include all the necessary files with correct timestamps so as to not > require any developer t

Re: Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-23 Thread Bryan Bennetts
***Sent again cause this mail got bounce from the automake mailing list presumably due to the attachment (now removed)*** On Tuesday 23 September 2008 14:45:33 Brian Dessent wrote: > Bryan Bennetts wrote: > > So question #1 is should aclocal.m4 be in my distribution? > > Strictly speaking, a user

Re: Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Bryan Bennetts wrote: > So question #1 is should aclocal.m4 be in my distribution? Strictly speaking, a user should not even need m4 installed at all (nor autoconf, nor automake, etc) to run the configure script and build the software. However common courtesy dictates that you should distribute

Kdevelop + automake problems

2008-09-23 Thread Bryan Bennetts
Hi guys, I've been redirected to you from the KDevelop forums, as they say I should be asking you this question. I've got a problem with a source distribution of an app I've written, when the user runs ./configure it automatically kicks off automake cause aclocal.m4 isn't included in my dist