Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:11:17PM CEST: > At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in > Makefile.am is redundant For simple setups, yes. How common are non-simple setups? I don't know for sure, but I would guess any package with more than a couple of configure s

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/15/2010 03:04 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am is redundant - how hard is it to teach automake to have aclocal _automatically_ include directories mentioned inside AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, to avoid the dual file maintenance headache?

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/15/2010 12:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST: >>> >>> On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote: Whether does "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path" only work for "Makefile.am"? >>> >>>

Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL does not trigger install-sh availability

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17:39PM CEST: > On 09/15/2010 01:05 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >This long-standing issue is (related to) PR automake/546 in > >http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake > > > >The issues with letting plain 'automake --add-missing' do

Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL does not trigger install-sh availability

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/15/2010 01:05 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: This long-standing issue is (related to) PR automake/546 in http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=automake The issues with letting plain 'automake --add-missing' do the job without AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE present is that we actually have less

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-automake] On 09/15/2010 12:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST: On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote: Whether does "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path" only work for "Makefile.am"? In the context of autoreconf (the only part o

Re: AC_PROG_INSTALL does not trigger install-sh availability

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, and adding bug-automake, * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:42:15PM CEST: > On 09/14/2010 03:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >using a configure.ac file with just four lines: > > > >AC_INIT([foo], [1]) > >AC_PROG_INSTALL > >I can produce a configure script by running `autoreconf -