Re: automake: looking for lib/, missing AC_PROG_YACC; configure: Finding jitter-config

[Jose E. Marchesi]

    >     Currently looking at the build configuration.
    >
    >     After a fresh checkout ( git clone --recursive
    >     git://git.savannah.gnu.org/poke.git ),
    >     when running automake, it complains that the lib/ subdir is mentioned,
    >     yet it doesn't exist
    >
    >     $ automake --add-missing
    >     Makefile.am:2: error: required directory ./lib does not exist
    >
    > You are supposed to use the boostrap script first.It takes care of
    > initializing/populating the gnulib git submodule.
    >
    
    bootstrap seems to check out into directory gnulib/ not lib/
    Did something change recently here ? (there is also gnulib/lib/ ... is the
    build-system meant to refer to this ?)
    
lib/ is where gnulib-tool installs the source files for the modules
specified in bootstrap.conf.  It has a Makefile.in, installed by
gnulib-tool, so that's why automake should be run after gnulib sets
everything up.  gnulib-tool is also executed by `bootstrap'.