Re: autoheader and autoconf issues

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi Jack,

At Sat, 5 Oct 2002 09:34:00 -0400 (EDT),
Jack Howarth wrote:
> 
> Takashi,
>    In doing my weekly cvs pull from the alsa cvs and debian alsa package
> build, I discovered that we seem to have a dependency on autoheader and
> autoconf >= 2.5 now. Before I could always go into the alsa-lib and
> alsa-utils directory and do a './cvscompile' to prepare the directory
> for use as a replacement tarball. Now I find this fails under autoheader
> and autoconf 2.13...
> 
> howarth@bogus:~/alsacvs/alsa-lib$ ./cvscompile
> /usr/bin/autoheader2.13: Symbol `VERSION' is not covered by /usr/share/autoconf2.13/acconfig.h
> automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
> automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
> automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
> configure.in: 85: required file `include/config.h.in' not found
> 
> If I edit both of the cvscompile scripts in alsa-lib and alsa-utils so
> that they explicitly call autoheader2.50 and autoconf2.50, then this
> works fine...
> 
> autoheader2.50: `include/config.h.in' is created
> 
> 
> Either we should get this fixed or somehow make sure autoheader/autoconf
> 2.50 or greater is called. 

it seems that i felt into a auto-tools' trap...

i get acconfig.h back to the tree so that the old autoheader should
work.  please give a try.


ciao,

Takashi


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