Autoconf working yet?

[Max Horn]

At 8:44 Uhr +0200 28.09.2001, Torbjörn Andersson wrote:
>  > Normally, libtoolize should do that, in the bootstrap script. And in
>>  fact it does for me.
>
>Not for me:
>
>    $ libtoolize --automake --copy --force --dry-run
>    rm -f config.guess
>    cp -f /usr/share/libtool/config.guess config.guess
>    rm -f config.sub
>    cp -f /usr/share/libtool/config.sub config.sub
>    rm -f ltmain.sh
>    cp -f /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh ltmain.sh
>
>Hmm... If I read the documentation right, ltconfig has been 
>obsoleted in  recent versions of libtool anyway: "The tests that 
>`ltconfig' used to perform are now kept in `libtool.m4' where they 
>can be written using Autoconf."

Right! I was not thinking straight.


>I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but if I rip out all of 
>the libtool stuff from acinclude.m4 and replace it with just
>
>    include(`libtool.m4')
>
>it works. For me, that is. I don't know if this is the *right' way 
>of doing it.

Not completly.

In fact, the proper solution is to rip out the stuff in acinclude.m4, 
and *not* replace it :)

aclocal look through configure.in for all needed macros; it will thne 
take the file acinclude.m4 and look for all those macros in there, 
the ones it cannot find it looks for in $prefix/share/aclocal/*.m4, 
these all are combined into the file aclocal.m4 then.


In my, case I just completl deleted the acinclude.m4; it is simply 
needed for people who do not have smpeg/libmkimod/vorbis installed.


Max
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