Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-16 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Just wanted to mention another approach that avoids guessing at which files need to be touched and in what order. This is what I use in debian/rules when I need to modify automake source files: # Suppress accidental execution of the auto-* tools; see # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/de

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Sam Hocevar wrote: > ... or fix the timestamps of the various auto* files before calling > configure. Use something like this: (order is important) > > touch configure.ac \ (or configure.in) > && touch aclocal.m4 \ > && touch configure \ > && touch config.h.in \

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sam Hocevar wrote: >See also /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz Thanks for the hint, which hopefully prevents me from any future automake caused frequent wordnet uploads. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:27:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I would love to do so but it happened to me that the files I created seem > to depend from automake. I do not call any automake script - just > the usual >configure; make; make install > but I had to add a build-dependency f

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > I would love to do so but it happened to me that the files I created seem > to depend from automake. I do not call any automake script - just > the usual >configure; make; make install > but I had to add a build-dependency from automake accordin

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Santiago Vila wrote: > In general, Debian source packages should not need to build-depend on > automake. In theory, the author should already care to create an > original tarball with all the required things already created > (in fact, it is part of GNU standards that packages

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Andreas Tille wrote: > regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: > Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new > subsubversion? > > I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add > automake stuff. Since I sw

Re: The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: > Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new > subsubversion? > > I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add > automa

The sense of automake (Was: Processed: better make that 1.7.8... :-()

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, regarding to bug #215554 I would like to ask for my personal clarification: Which sens makes automake if the resulting output depends from every new subsubversion? I've thought that I would do the wordnet program some good if I would add automake stuff. Since I switched to auotmake1.7 I have