Re: follow-up (re: need to copy gettext/m4/Makefile.am ?)

[Bruno Haible]

Rapp, Perry wrote:
> I tried copying the gettext-0.11.2/m4/Makefile.am
> 
> into my m4 subdirectory,
> 
> and rebuilt
>  aclocal -I m4; autoheader; automake --add-missing; autoconf
>  rm -rf build
>  mkdir build
>  cd build
>  ../configure
>  make
> 
> 
> and now I get the missing config.status problem
> which I think is the problem I had which led me to
> upgrade to gettext-0.11.2:
> 
> 
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/intl'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/po'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by
> `Makefile'.  Stop

Using automake is black magic; I think that after one more round
everything should be fine:

  aclocal -I m4; autoheader; automake --add-missing; autoconf
  rm -rf build
  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make
  make -k distclean
  cd ..
  mkdir build2
  cd build2
  ../configure
  make

Bruno