Re: [avr-libc-dev] reconf

[Russell Shaw]

Russell Shaw wrote:
> Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
> > As Russell Shaw wrote:
> >
> > > Autotools are only hard to understand initially, but after that, its
> > > easy to find why your old script doesn't work with the latest
> > > autoconf.
> >
> > Apparently, a good number of FreeBSD developers don't seem to agree
> > with you.
> >
> > > Does this mean you always
> > > type the specific autoconfNNN version?
> >
> > Exactly.  You don't get any tool name `autoconf' or `automake'
> > installed on FreeBSD (at least not through the package system), only
> > the versionized tools.  And autoconf/make-generated Makefiles seem to
> > not like this at all, at least "make distcheck" doesn't work out of
> > the box for me even though it did work for Ted, using a slightly
> > different versioning scheme (autofoo-X.YY instead of autofooXYY).

One thing i forgot to mention is that projects often have a
script called bootstrap or autogen that goes thru the steps
of running aclocal, autoheader, autoconf, and automake. These
scripts can check for versions of the installed tools if
needed.