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Re: autoreconf gets autopoint order wrong?
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Soren A |
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Re: autoreconf gets autopoint order wrong? |
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Fri, 4 Oct 2002 02:25:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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I'll apologize in advance for asking questions instead of providing
answers. Paul's posting gave rise to several questions for me. Hopefully
my posting in this thread won't be off-topic; if it's off-topic for the
thread then hopefully follow-ups can be re-titled.
"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote around 03 Oct 2002
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> I'm using autoconf 2.54 / automake 1.7 / gettext 0.11.5.
I am not clear on what package you, Paul, are trying to build.
> My source tree contains no derived files at all; you must install the
> above tools before you can build from a CVS checkout.
>
> By hand I need to run these tools to get the tree "ready to build":
>
> autopoint
> aclocal -I config
> autoheader
> automake --add-missing
> autoconf
> ./configure
> make update
I have never heard of `autopoint' before and wonder if someone could
describe what it does, what is its role with the Autotools. Or provide
pointers to where I can educate myself, of course.
> ("make update" grabs public files from ftp.gnu.org, translation files,
> etc. using wget).
This is the main reason i am writing. I observed the need for this recently
and so did others (on another List). This "update" target in a Makefile --
how does it work? Where can I see that? Is this generated by an Automake
run on input files ('Makefile.am's)? ???
Thanks!
Soren A