Re: autogen.sh warnings

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> configure.ac:176: required file `./config.rpath' not found
>>
>> The can be fixed by `touch config.rpath`
> 
> configure does actually run this, so I'd recommend copying the file from
> gettext or gnulib instead.

The gettext version is a shell script about 670 lines long that is 
described:

# Output a system dependent set of variables, describing how to set the
# run time search path of shared libraries in an executable.

I'm not sure GRUB uses or needs the output of config.rpath.  I was just 
suppressing a warning.

>> automake: no `Makefile.am' found for any configure output
>>
>> I created a one line Makefile.am with the contents:
>>
>> SUBDIRS = . po
>>
>> This also fixes a warning generated by AM_GNU_GETTEXT which needed to be  
>> changed to AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) to avoid a complaint about a  
>> missing intl/ directory.  Adding an empty ABOUT-NLS was also needed.
> 
> This is likely to be delicate since we're not actually using Automake as
> such, and we already have a separate Makefile.in which needs to not be
> overwritten. I think adding a Makefile.am would make it just too easy to
> clobber that by accident, even if it does suppress a warning message.

You are probably right.  It looks like Makefile.in is basically 
destroyed.  Not good.  It looks like automake thinks it knows more than 
it's users and we'll have to live with the warning about missing 
SUBDIRS.  I think I could print out a message to ignore the spurious 
warning.

Do you want a new patch?

   -- Bruce