From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y66fv2d3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D388F7F.20708@swipnet.se> <87r5c7jk5m.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4D39EF9C.1050804@cs.ucla.edu> <4D3A8666.4070609@cs.ucla.edu> <877hdvd49f.fsf@meyering.net> <83mxmrzhb6.fsf@gnu.org> <4D3C9C5B.8050303@cs.ucla.edu> <00oc4v55eb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301380767 4965 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 06:39:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chad , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 08:39:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4SaG-0006KO-Ho for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:39:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4SaF-0001qp-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46853 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Sa9-0001qi-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Sa8-0006SL-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Sa7-0006SF-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49047) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Sa6-00070J-0H; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:39:10 -0400 X-Spook: BROMURE colonel emc benelux Jiang Zemin USCOI Iran CDMA X-Ran: jK%JoZek2QqN46=~a^.&dZ.,2vacr??e{x X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137835 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.." > We're miscommunicating: the original report showed the error to be the > lack of install-sh and doesn't mention automake. So the missing rule is > to call autogen.sh or autoreconf or something when install-sh > is missing. (autogen.sh calls autoreconf which calls automake to add the files) Well, there's nothing to be done about it now. Any new make rule would only take effect after running configure, and anyone who can run configure does not need such a rule. Anyone would ran autogen.sh between ~ Mar 20 and 25 should simply run it again if they have this issue.