Re: integrating gnulib into GNU clisp (was: Re: stdint generation)

[Bruno Haible]

Sam Steingold wrote:
> >   gnulib-tool --import --source-base=src/gllib --m4-base=src/glm4 \
> >                        --aux-dir=src/build-aux --no-changelog \
> >                        stdint stdbool ...
> 
> this printed
> 
> gnulib-tool: module config.guess doesn't exist
> gnulib-tool: module config.rpath doesn't exist
> gnulib-tool: module config.sub doesn't exist
> gnulib-tool: module depcomp doesn't exist
> gnulib-tool: module install-sh doesn't exist
> gnulib-tool: module missing doesn't exist

Oops, this means you tried to pass "config.guess" etc. as module names?
Nope, this does not work. The modules are the file names under gnulib/modules/.
If you just need to copy some files (such as config.guess, config.sub -
these are not part of any module), copy them. 'depcomp', 'install-sh', 'missing'
come from "automake --add-missing".

> this also printed some suggestions that I followed.
> now, configure.in starts with
> 
> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(lispbibl.d)
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(build-aux)
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> 
> and has
> 
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([po/Makefile.in gllib/Makefile])

Yes, this looks ok.

> and it fails with
> 
> config.status: creating gllib/Makefile
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: gllib/Makefile.in
> 
> I hoped that automake would generate gllib/Makefile.in out of 
> gllib/Makefile.am automatically, but this does not happen (why?)

It does not happen because it's simply a different step. You need to
invoke (from Makefile.devel) first gnulib-tool, then aclocal, then
autoconf, autoheader and automake.

> So I had to run "automake gllib/Makefile" by hand.  is this right?

Yes, right.

> do I now commit the generated gllib/Makefile.in to the CVS?

According to the clisp CVS policy, yes, you commit it and regenerate it
and re-commit it now and then, like you do with other autotools generated
files (configure, unixconf.h.in etc.).

Bruno