From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A better autogen.sh Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:11 -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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301369788 22852 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 03:36:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: chad , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 05:36:24 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 1Q4Pj9-0001cT-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:36:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35441 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Pj8-0000O0-7t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35767 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4Pj3-0000Nv-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Pj2-0005qY-Hk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:23233 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Pj2-0005qU-C1; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAFNSkU1MCqRC/2dsb2JhbAClSHiIdrwWhWoElgY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.63,259,1299474000"; d="scan'208";a="98452266" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-66.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.164.66]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 28 Mar 2011 23:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 542D1660C7; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:36:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:21:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:137833 Archived-At: >> We should have added a Makefile rule to do the above. > The only instance of `automake' in the Makefiles already has the > necessary switches. I don't know what else is needed. 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. Stefan