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Re: Build-depends: autoconf, automake ?



On Sunday 26 November 2000 21:17, Steve Robbins wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 November 2000 20:40, Steve Robbins wrote:
> > > 1. Automake inserts a makefile variable "TAR" into every Makefile.in
> > > generated.  Upstream has "TAR = gtar", but I have "TAR = tar", greatly
> > > (and needlessly) inflating the .diff.  The value of TAR is hardcoded
> > > into automake itself.
> >
> > I don't believe it. I think a variable "TAR" is defined in Makefile.am.
>
> Well then, I invite you to check out the sources of any automake'ified
> package and report back to us.

Sorry, you right. I had to missing something.


> Yes, the files are present in the upstream source.  That is not the
> problem.  The problem is that automake does not know that I need to
> specify a "-I" flag to aclocal when it generates these rules in
> Makefile.in.

I think automake never knows what *.m4 files are needed by automake.

Mariusz

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