Re: 5.9 The Future of `aclocal'

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <address@hidden> writes:

[...]
 >> > "autoreconf" does not  provide
 >> > a way of convincing automake to run with the options, "--gnu"
[...]
 Bruce> configure.ac has:

 Bruce> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.6 gnits dist-bzip2])

If you are using gnits, you don't want --gnu.

 Bruce> and I invoked "autoreconf" as you saw in the comment (*with* --install)
 Bruce> ## autoreconf --force --install --include=m4 -Wall

Don't use --include=m4, use ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS instead.

 Bruce> and the files COPYING, INSTALL, config.guess and
 Bruce> config.sub were not copied into the directory until I
 Bruce> directly invoked "automake" with the noted options:
 Bruce>  automake --gnu --add-missing --copy --ignore-deps -Wall

That would be a bug.  Please show us how to reproduce it so it
can be fixed.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz