Re: autoreconf vs autogen.sh

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Aug 27, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Roman Rybalko wrote:

> > > I've inherited an autotools-using project and am trying to learn  
> > > more
> > > about
> > > autoconf and automake.  The project has used the following brief
> > > autogen.sh:
> > >
> > > aclocal && autoheader && autoconf && automake --add-missing --copy
> > >
> > > Is there any reason I can't just use autoreconf, which I  
> > > understand is
> > > supposed to fill this role?
> > yes, using autoreconf --install (or autoreconf --force --verbose
> > --install) is usually the recommended way unless you have very
> > specific needs.
> when I have to include some m4s in m4 dir how I can specify -I m4  
> option
> to aclocal through autoreconf ?

Hello Roman,

(please avoid Top-Posting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top- 
posting#Top-posting)

aclocal will use the value of ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in your top-level  
Makefile.am, so you can do something like:
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I build-aux

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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