* Some questions about Autotools in Emacs
@ 2013-12-23 13:52 Xue Fuqiao
2013-12-23 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
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From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2013-12-23 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hi,
I'm an Autotools newbie and just started to study the build system in
Emacs. I have two questions about them now:
1) In configure.ac, I found a
"AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h:src/config.in)". I can only find the
macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' in the Autoconf (2.69) manual. Why?
What's the differences of the two macros?
2) I only found a Makefile.am in the lib/ directory. Does Emacs use
Automake? If so, how?
BTW the macro AC_INIT accepts five arguments (PACKAGE, VERSION,
[BUG-REPORT], [TARNAME], [URL]), but only the two required arguments are
specified in confugure.ac. Does it make sense to add the rest
arguments? TIA
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* Re: Some questions about Autotools in Emacs
2013-12-23 13:52 Some questions about Autotools in Emacs Xue Fuqiao
@ 2013-12-23 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-23 15:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-12-23 22:46 ` Xue Fuqiao
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2013-12-23 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: emacs-devel
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> 1) In configure.ac, I found a
> "AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h:src/config.in)". I can only find the
> macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' in the Autoconf (2.69) manual. Why?
> What's the differences of the two macros?
AC_CONFIG_HEADER is an obsolete macro, identical to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
without the optional arguments. I have replaced it now.
> 2) I only found a Makefile.am in the lib/ directory. Does Emacs use
> Automake? If so, how?
lib/ is imported from gnulib, which uses automake.
Andreas.
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* Re: Some questions about Autotools in Emacs
2013-12-23 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2013-12-23 15:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-12-23 22:46 ` Xue Fuqiao
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Stephen J. Turnbull @ 2013-12-23 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: Xue Fuqiao, emacs-devel
Andreas Schwab writes:
> AC_CONFIG_HEADER is an obsolete macro, identical to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
> without the optional arguments. I have replaced it now.
That seems to be a bug in the manual. Even though both the spelling
and argument changes are trivial in a sense, AC_CONFIG_HEADER ought to
be in the "Obsolete Macros" node.
@Fuqiao: On the off chance you missed the "Obsolete Constructs" node
in the Autoconf Info file, that's where the documentation of
AC_CONFIG_HEADER *should* be (but AFAICT it isn't, if that's any
consolation).
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* Re: Some questions about Autotools in Emacs
2013-12-23 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-23 15:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
@ 2013-12-23 22:46 ` Xue Fuqiao
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2013-12-23 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1) In configure.ac, I found a
>> "AC_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h:src/config.in)". I can only find the
>> macro `AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' in the Autoconf (2.69) manual. Why?
>> What's the differences of the two macros?
>
> AC_CONFIG_HEADER is an obsolete macro, identical to AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
> without the optional arguments. I have replaced it now.
>
>> 2) I only found a Makefile.am in the lib/ directory. Does Emacs use
>> Automake? If so, how?
>
> lib/ is imported from gnulib, which uses automake.
I see. Thank you. So, Emacs itself only uses Autoconf, but not
Automake/Libtool, right?
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