Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Dec 1997 16:28:02 +0000 Received: (qmail 5698 invoked from network); 4 Dec 1997 16:27:59 -0000 Received: from chickasaw.gate.net (root@chickasaw.gate.net@198.206.134.26) by 205.229.104.5 with SMTP; 4 Dec 1997 16:27:59 -0000 Received: from seminole.gate.net (storm@seminole.gate.net [199.227.0.14]) by chickasaw.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA147510 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:32:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (storm@localhost) by seminole.gate.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA50644 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:34:30 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: seminole.gate.net: storm owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:34:30 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Ellis To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: automake: Automake's macros cause autoheader to die (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Package: autoconf Version: N/A The following was a message discussing a problem with automake and autoheader. Could you apply the fix recomended to acconfig.h in autoconf? --=20 Scott K. Ellis http://www.gate.net/~storm/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 04 Dec 1997 11:16:46 -0500 From: Fran=E7ois Pinard To: Kevin Dalley Cc: automake@gnu.org, storm@gate.net, 14112-forwarded@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: automake: Automake's macros cause autoheader to die Kevin Dalley writes: > The following bug has been reported to the Debian release of > automake-1.2. Please keep the "cc" headers for bug tracking. > When running autoheader on a configure.in that includes some automake > macros, autoheader complains about symbols [PACKAGE and VERSION] it > can't deal with. It then fails to generate an output file. The symbols have to be preannounced in `acconfig.h', like this: /* Define to the name of the distribution. */ #undef PACKAGE /* Define to the version of the distribution. */ #undef VERSION This is documented in the Autoconf manual, but it might be a good idea that the Automake manual also insists a bit about adding such lines to `acconfig.h'. > I'm not sure if this is a bug with autoconf or automake, but > autoconf/autoheader works fine without it. I do not think it should be considered as a bug, except maybe against the Automake documentation. `autoconf'/`autoheader' behaviour does not restrict what `automake' could do or need: these are different packages, even if good friends. So, I do not understand the argument, if any. --=20 Fran=E7ois Pinard mailto:pinard@iro.umontreal.ca Join the free Translation Project! http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard