I wanted this change in vc-dwim, since it doesn't use autoheader: I'd rather skip autoheader than add an unnecessary AC_CONFIG_HEADERS.
>From 6588bee3103aceaf840cb073ef5717d85d3e412a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:21:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] build: don't try to run autoheader if we don't use it * build-aux/bootstrap: Define AUTOHEADER=true when AC_CONFIG_HEADERS is not used in configure.ac. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ build-aux/bootstrap | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8cf27c0..5391614 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-09-08 Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com> + + build: don't try to run autoheader if we don't use it + * build-aux/bootstrap: Define AUTOHEADER=true when AC_CONFIG_HEADERS + is not used in configure.ac. + 2009-09-08 Eric Blake <e...@byu.net> euidaccess: fix compilation error diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap index b6dce12..8f14199 100755 --- a/build-aux/bootstrap +++ b/build-aux/bootstrap @@ -728,6 +728,10 @@ find "$m4_base" "$source_base" \ # Reconfigure, getting other files. +# Skip autoheader if it's not needed. +grep '^[ ]*AC_CONFIG_HEADERS\>' configure.ac >/dev/null || + AUTOHEADER=true + for command in \ libtool \ "${ACLOCAL-aclocal} --force -I m4" \ -- 1.6.5.rc0.164.g5f6b0