automake update coming soon (was Re: Question on autotools)

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday May 24, 2002 12:26, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Freitag, 24. Mai 2002 16:05, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > 1) libxml in kdesupport generates an empty config.h, so nothing
> > compiles:
> >
> > /* config.h.  Generated by configure.  */
> > /* config.h.in.  Generated automatically from configure.in by
> > autoheader. */
>
> Hmm, automake doesn't have anything to do with config.h, that's all in
> autoheader aka autoconf's hands. Are you sure you didn't remove a bit
> much? :)

Yes, because it did that before I removed the warning. :-)

>
> > So, after installing KDE 3.0 kdesupport:
> >
> > 2) The arts configure check for audiofile doesn't work anymore.  It
> > runs
> >
> > configure:27219: gcc -o conftest -ansi -W -Wall -pedantic -Wshadow
> > -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
> > -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -g3    -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT 
> > -D_REENTRANT -I/opt/kde3/include -I/opt/qt3/include
> > -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I${top_srcdir}/libltdl -L/usr/X11R6/lib
> > -L/opt/qt3/lib -L${exec_prefix}/lib   -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/opt/qt3/lib
> > -L${exec_prefix}/lib  conftest.c -laudiofile   >&5
> >
> > and can't find the lib, because libaudiofile is in /opt/kde3, which
> > isn't getting substituted for ${exec_prefix}.
>
> I'm afraid this is not related to automake 1.6. It has been reported
> before as bug I introduced in acinclude.m4.in related. I didn't come up
> with a clean solution yet ;(
>
> If you need a work around, use --libdir=/opt/kde3/lib as configure
> argument.

Hm, thanks for all the information.  I'll go try again.

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