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Re: Autoconf 2.52b released
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: Autoconf 2.52b released |
Date: |
04 Aug 2001 16:55:21 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
hi!
>> 1. The package layout has completely changed
Ralf> AFAIS, aclocal still applies $PREFIX/aclocal. However, autoconf
Ralf> does not put any files into it. I.e. when installing autoconf it
Ralf> does not generate a $PREFIX/aclocal directory.
Err, I don't understand what you mean. aclocal is an Automake beast.
Ralf> To make life easier for packagers (eg. when building rpms) I
Ralf> would suggest to let installing autoconf create an empty
Ralf> $PREFIX/aclocal directory. ..
But then, for instance, it means you can't install Gettext before
Autoconf anyway. So I'm not sure I understand why this would help.
Ralf> A nit in autoconf's interaction with automake: automake does not
Ralf> know anything about autom4te.caches and therefore misses to
Ralf> clean them up. At least I would assume 'make clean' and/or
Ralf> 'make distclean' to rm -rf them
I suppose you refer to the Autoconf package only, right? Otherwise I
don't know how to deal with that :(
- Autoconf 2.52b released, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/01
- autom4te and aclocal.m4 (Was: Autoconf 2.52b released), Lars J. Aas, 2001/08/01
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Nicolas Joly, 2001/08/02
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/08/02
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/08/05
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/09
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Ralf Corsepius, 2001/08/09
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/09
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/08/09
- Re: Autoconf 2.52b released, Akim Demaille, 2001/08/10