automake macro [Was: Re: Compiling Problems on Solaris (fwd)]

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hi all,

it seems that to prevent make from rebuilding all generated files you have
to add this macro to configure.in :

AM_MAINTAINER_MODE

does this work / is this something we want?

Jasper

At 03:19 AM 4/19/02, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here goes the question: do we really need all those tricks with aclocal
>and automake in the Makefile? I guess the regular user, who just wants
>to build tarball, doesn't need all that stuff, configure should be enough
>for him.
>
>And if we really need all those tricks, can we at least ask configure
>script to verify automake version?
>
>Thanks.
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:13:29 -0500
>From: "Edscott Wilson [iso-8859-1] García" <edscott at imp.mx>
>Reply-To: xfce at moongroup.com
>To: xfce at moongroup.com
>Subject: Re: Compiling Problems on Solaris
>
>On Jue 18 Abr 2002 17:20, Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov wrote:
> > Does someone, who just wants to build xfce from the tarball, really need
> > automake? And if particular version 1.4-p5 is really required (since 1.5
> > may not work too), why not to use configure script to check it?
>
>I'm not really sure. You might want to post your question to Guido on the
>xfce-devel list. Guido did wonders with the configure script so that now
>large-file support is enabled on 32 bit systems and rpm building is a breeze.
>
>Edscott
>
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 April 2002 13:21, Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov wrote:
> > > > aclocal: configure.in: 68: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> > > > make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > > >
> > > > SunOS 5.7, autoconf 2.13, automake 1.4, 'make' is gnu make 3.79.1
> > >
> > > I think you need automake-1.4p5 to do the trick. If you go to
> > > automake-1.5 things don't work well either (at least for me).
> > >
> > > Edscott
>
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