Hello Stuart, Stuart Caie <ky...@cabextract.org.uk> writes:
> the automake macro AM_ICONV requires the auxiliary program config.rpath, > however automake --add-missing will not install it. > > Technically, AM_ICONV is not distributed with automake, and neither is > is config.rpath. However, automake recognises config.rpath as a special > file to distribute nonetheless. > > Could config.rpath be added to automake's list of auxiliary programs, > like ar-lib, config.guess and so on? > > If not, could there be some mechanism added to automake so other > packages can tell it to add their required files? e.g. could gettext.m4 > which defines AM_ICONV include some special macro that tells automake > that config.rpath is needed and can be found in <location> ? “config.rpath” which is maintained in GNU Gettext is already copied inside the target source tree by the ‘autopoint’ program which is automatically run by ‘autoreconf --install’ when the Gettext macros are added to “configure.ac”. ‘autoreconf’ serves as a meta command for the autotools which should be used instead of manually running ‘autoconf’, ‘aclocal’, ‘automake’, ... in sequence. Unless you disagree, I will close this bug. Thanks for the report. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
