`configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-24 Thread Gour
.ac(in): autoreconf-2.59: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required I read about using 'configure.gnu' and found one post in autoconf archives (Jul '04) which says: In the tools (aka pkgA) subdirectory, write a wrapper script called configure.gnu, which takes the arguments

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question remains: how to easily solve the problem of invoking custom > 'configure' script in one of the sub-package directories? What I'd do is put the sub-package one level further down, and use my own configure.ac that generates a configure that invokes th

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-24 Thread Gour
Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The question remains: how to easily solve the problem of invoking custom > > 'configure' script in one of the sub-package directories? > > What I'd do is put the sub-package one level further down, and > use my own configure.ac that generates a configure

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-24 Thread Paul Eggert
Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, the build process works, but I'm interested whether the error > message from th Subject: is autoreconf bug or its limitation? Sorry, I didn't have enough time to wade through your message to give a reasoned answer, but my kneejerk reaction is that it's a lim

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-25 Thread Gour
Paul Eggert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry, I didn't have enough time to wade through your message to give > a reasoned answer, but my kneejerk reaction is that it's a limitation. OK, thanks. > It should get fixed either way, if someone has the time to write a fix. Considering that I'm doin

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-25 Thread Noah Misch
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 09:45:29AM +0200, Gour wrote: > and I got a the following reply from Ralf Corsepius: > > autoreconf-2.59: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required > IMO, you have tripped a bug in autoreconf. This is fixed in CVS as of January 2005. Unless you

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-26 Thread Gour
Noah Misch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is fixed in CVS as of January 2005. Great. > Unless you use CVS Autoconf, that does not yet help you. I suggest using your > own bootstrap script until we release an Autoconf with this fix and it spreads > around your developer community. I'm using

Re: `configure.ac' or `configure.in' is required

2005-06-27 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:17:21AM +0200, Gour wrote: > I'm using autoconf-2.59-r7 (on Gentoo), so may we assume this will be > released in 2.60 or so? Yes.