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'm4/dos.m4' does not exist


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: 'm4/dos.m4' does not exist
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:10:29 -0500

On 10-Mar-2011, bpabbott wrote:

| Just noticed that m4/dos.m4 is no longer included in gnulib
| 
| From the gnulib ChangeLog ...
| 
| ---------------------
| 2011-02-25  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
| 
| dirname: move m4/dos.m4 functionality into lib/dosname.h
| 
| m4/dos.m4 needs to go.  It laboriously invokes the C compiler, and
| extracts symbols from it, puts them into config.h; but it's much
| easier to use the symbols directly.  filename.h already does this,
| but it disagrees with dos.m4 in some respects.  This patch
| introduces a different include file dosname.h that packages up
| dos.m4, and then later we can work on merging filename.h and
| dosname.h.  Applications that need only the easy-to-configure
| symbols should consider including dosname.h rather than dirname.h.
| ---------------------
| 
| After a maintainer clean, the build process not terminates with ...
| 
| ./bootstrap: aclocal --force -I m4 -I/sw/share/aclocal ...
| aclocal: aclocal: file `m4/dos.m4' does not exist

I don't see this problem.  I did

  hg pull
  hg update
  cd gnulib
  git pull
  cd ..
  ./autogen.sh

followed by changing to my build directory and doing

  /path/to/src/directory/configure --prefix=... ...
  make

and it all seems to works correctly.

jwe


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