Re: which is the correct form?

[Ben Pfaff]

Bob Lockie <address@hidden> writes:

> AC_INIT (package, version, [bug-report], [tarname])
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

That's up-to-date as far as I know.

> or
> 
> AC_INIT(src/hello.c)

This is obsolete.  See the Autoconf manual:

 - Macro: AC_INIT (UNIQUE-FILE-IN-SOURCE-DIR)
     Formerly `AC_INIT' used to have a single argument, and was
     equivalent to:

          AC_INIT
          AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(UNIQUE-FILE-IN-SOURCE-DIR)

> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello, 1.3.11)

This is also obsolete.  See the Automake manual:

`AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([OPTIONS])'
`AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(PACKAGE, VERSION, [NO-DEFINE])'
     Runs many macros required for proper operation of the generated
     Makefiles.

     This macro has two forms, the first of which is preferred.  In
     this form, `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' is called with a single argument --
     a space-separated list of Automake options which should be applied
     to every `Makefile.am' in the tree.  The effect is as if each
     option were listed in `AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS'.

     The second, deprecated, form of `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' has two required
     arguments: the package and the version number.  This form is
     obsolete because the PACKAGE and VERSION can be obtained from
     Autoconf's `AC_INIT' macro (which itself has an old and a new
     form).

     If your `configure.in' has:
          AC_INIT(src/foo.c)
          AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mumble, 1.5)
     you can modernize it as follows:
          AC_INIT(mumble, 1.5)
          AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/foo.c)
          AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE

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