Re: distributing libltdl with my package fails

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gideon,

* Gideon Go wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 08:33:45PM CEST:
> On Wednesday 20 April 2005 18:45, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > That's fine.  I think it also gave me the necessary clue: in toplevel
> >
> > configure.ac you have:
> > | AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
> > |       libltdl/Makefile
> > |       src/Makefile])
> >
> > Please remove libltdl/Makefile.  Explanation: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(libltdl)
> > means there is a sub-configuration in libltdl, with associated
> > configure.ac and created configure.  That libltdl/configure.ac already
> > has libltdl/Makefile as output.
> >
> > Does everything work fine for you now?
> > Is there an error in our documentation that suggests doing this?
> 
> Yes! Everything works fine now.  The libltdl/Makefile ended up here because 
> it 
> is included when I executed autoscan.  It does seem reasonable, so I left it 
> there and forgot about it.  Thanks again!

Thanks for mentioning this.  This seems to be a bug in autoscan; I don't
think it should descend AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS for the toplevel configure.ac.
I will report this on bug-autoconf.

Cheers,
Ralf