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Re: Bootstrapping from a non-checked-out distribution is risky


From: siko1056
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping from a non-checked-out distribution is risky
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 04:15:21 -0700 (MST)

siko1056 wrote
> [...] It is a documented "feature"
> (bad hard-coded design in my opinion), that each automake generated
> package
> has to have literally: "INSTALL, NEWS, README, AUTHORS, and ChangeLog,
> plus
> one of COPYING.LIB, COPYING.LESSER or COPYING" [1].  There is nothing you
> can do, no matter how hard you try [...]

A small addition to avoid repeating my failed attempt to overcome this
problem: 

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign

did not work either.

Kai.




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