Re: [Nano-devel] nano won't make

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:22:02PM -0500, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> > Before I update autoconf, are we sticking with the new version or are we
> > likley to revert (again ;) ?
> Hmm.  Come to think of it, make distcheck doesn't seem to want to run,
> it's complaining about not having m4/Makefile.in, which exists.

As I noted in the cvs changelog, I suck.
This error and another one were my fault (I got things right befire
committing, rm'd the stuff by accident, redid the stuff but forgot to ad
m4/ to SUBDIRS. I also made a typo in m4/Makefile.am).
Should work now. With am1.5, at least.

> We also
> seem to have an interesting situation where configure.ac complains about
> configure.in, and yet if you remove configure.in the program doesn't
> compile :-)

How come? You shouldn't have configure.in in your tree anymore. Where is
it coming from?

> The problem is probably linked to automake, which itself is
> b0rked beyond repair.  Any alternative auto-configuration systems out
> there people wanna switch to? ;-)

I've proposed to some fellow devels to fix automake(s) tomorrow. At
least the permission thing shouldn't ship with woody...

Jordi
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