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Re: autoreconf --flavor ?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Patrick Guio <patrick dot guio at fys dot uio dot no>
- Cc: autoconf at gnu dot org
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 13:45:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: autoreconf --flavor ?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0302031034330.15832@aurora.uio.no>
Patrick Guio <patrick.guio@fys.uio.no> writes:
|> Dear all,
|> I am using currently autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2.
|> I find it annoying not to be able to use te nice tool autoreconf without
|> that all the following files NEWS, README, AUTHORS and ChangeLog should be
|> present in the current directory. automake has the possibility to disable
|> that feature with the --foreign option. Why not allow autoreconf to take
|> in options for the other tools?
Try setting it via AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in Makefile.am or AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in
configure.in.
Andreas.
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