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Re: configure.ac warnings abou missing files
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Roger Leigh <rl117 at york dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: 24 Mar 2002 13:37:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: configure.ac warnings abou missing files
- References: <20020323140622.GC701@whinlatter.uklinux.net>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Roger" == Roger Leigh <rl117@york.ac.uk> writes:
Roger> When automake runs, I'm getting this:
Roger> Running automake --gnu ...
Roger> configure.ac: 704: required file `src/main/gimpprint-config.in' not found
Roger> configure.ac: 704: required file `src/main/gimpprint.pc.in' not found
Roger> The two files do not exist because they are generated by
Roger> configure, and then processed by config.status. Is there any
Roger> way to tell automake that these files are /supposed/ to be
Roger> missing?
Not right now.
Does config.status find these files in the build tree? That would
surprise me. (Or more precisely it would be another autoconf change I
haven't kept up with.)
OTOH, if you're building the files in the source tree, isn't it
incorrect to build them in configure?
Tom