Re: autoreconf 2.52e failure if aclocal need not be run...

[akim]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:01:48PM -0500, Ezra Peisach wrote:
> 
> Found another problem - if aclocal.m4 does not exist in a subdir with
> configure.in - aclocal is run (which is ok) - but aclocal.m4t is not
> created (as it is not needed) - but autoreconf fails...
> 
> In this example, the top of the tree has an aclocal.m4 - which is hand
> created.

Thanks for the report!  I'll address that.

I have a question: I'm willing to change the calling convention of
autoreconf: instead of performing more or less a find(1) to find
the configure.in, .ac, run only on the configure.ac,.in specified
on the cmd line (possibly several of them), defaulting to that in the
current dir.

Then, use AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS to find the other configure.ac, .in.

Why?  Because it is common to have other trees in the working directory,
for instance the result of a make distcheck etc., and one does not
want to have autoreconf autoreconf them.

Would that be OK with your use?