Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:49:08PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>   
>> I've been looking at autogen.sh some more.
>>
>> Does anyone know why the lines:
>>
>> # FIXME: automake doesn't like that there's no Makefile.am
>> automake -a -c -f || true
>>
>> are present at all?  Since there is no Makefile.am, it looks like  
>> automake only creates a few files and aborts.
>>
>> Doing an experiment, I checked out a new version of trunk twice.  In  
>> both cases I ran md5sum on all the files in the top level directory.  In  
>> case 1, I didn't change anything and ran autogen.sh and then ran md5sum
>> again.  In case 2, I commented out the automake line above.
>>
>> As you can see below, automake only adds standard 'config.guess',  
>> 'config.sub', and 'missing' scripts.
>>
>> The real purpose of automake is to create a Makefile.in for configure.  
>> GRUB doesn't use it for that.  Is there any reason to not just add the  
>> three files to the bzr repository and remove the automake line from  
>> autogen.sh?
>>     
>
> These files do change from time to time, in ways that are important; for
> example, config.guess and config.sub are updated to support new
> architectures or new variants of existing architectures. It's best to
> have this done automatically rather than doing it once manually and then
> forgetting about it.
>
> We could have a temporary directory in which we run automake, just for
> the purpose of getting hold of these files. Perhaps something like this:
>
>   rm -rf automake-tmp
>   mkdir -p automake-tmp
>   cat >automake-tmp/configure.ac <<EOF
> AC_INIT([temporary], [0.1])
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> EOF
>   touch automake-tmp/Makefile.am
>   (cd automake-tmp && aclocal && automake -a -c -f --foreign)
>   cp -a automake-tmp/config.guess automake-tmp/config.sub \
>         automake-tmp/install-sh automake-tmp/missing \
>         .
>   rm -rf automake-tmp
>
> I don't know whether this is worth it, but it would be possible.
>
>   
Why can't Makefile.in moved to Makefile.am and then just let automake
mostly copy Makefile.am to Makefile.in ? (I'm automake newbie), just an idea


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