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Re: Using automake to install config.sub and config.guess
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
"William" == William S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk> writes:
William> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>>>>> "William" == William S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk> writes:
William> We are using AC_CANONICAL_HOST which requires config.sub
>> and
William> config.guess. We'd like to pick these files up from automake which
William> regularly updates these on each automake release. We are using
William> automake but not libtool so can't use libtoolize which is able to
William> install them. Also
William> automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>> There is a fix for this bug in CVS. Automake 1.9.1 will update
>> these files on such incantation.
William> Okay that's great.
Sorry, I answered too fast. The fix I was talking about is for
AC_CANONICAL_TARGET and AC_CANONICAL_BUILD which were not
recognized.
I cannot reproduce your problem with AC_CANONICAL_HOST, it
appears to work just fine: automake --add-missing --copy
--force-missing DOES overwrite config.sub and config.guess.
I've narrowed the problem down and it can be demonstrated with a cut down
version of our build structure. See the testcase below. The problem is with
subdirectories and the root directory containing a Makefile.in rather than a
Makefile.am. Is there perhaps anything I can put in the root Makefile.in to get
config.sub and config.guess installed?
William
. ./defs || exit 1
mkdir one
cat > configure.in << 'END'
AC_INIT
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(nonesuch, nonesuch)
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile one/Makefile)
END
# These two lines succeed in getting automake to install config.sub and config.guess
#cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
#END
# These two lines fail to get automake to install config.sub and config.guess
cat > Makefile.in << 'END'
END
cat > one/Makefile.am << 'END'
END
$ACLOCAL || exit 1
$AUTOCONF
$AUTOMAKE --add-missing
./configure