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Re: really small nitpick
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: really small nitpick |
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Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:38:58 +0100 |
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Hi Laurence,
* Laurence Darby wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 06:24:51PM CET:
>
> I'm just starting to learn autotools, so far I've tried about 1/4 of
> 4 tutorials, without much success.
Read this one, forget all the others:
http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html
> Then I RTFM, and overall it's surprisingly good :)
>
> Starting from scratch, I ran autoscan, but it gave an error message:
> autom4te: configure.ac: no such file or directory
> autoscan: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
>
> It's not an actual problem since configure.scan is generated, but the
> error is annoying and unnecessary.
True enough. That should be a warning only, and it should not cause
autoscan to fail.
> $ touch configure.ac && autoscan
>
> is nice, as the output shows what's going on and it's obvious what to
> do next. So my nitpick is that I think the manual should mention to
> create an initial empty configure.ac before running autoscan, in part
> 3.2.
Either above, or this, yes.
Cheers,
Ralf