Re: [Cppunit-devel] CppUnit 1.7.8 tar ball

[Steve M. R. <ste...@vi...>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:56:08PM +0100, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
> Attached is the missing depcomp file (from 1.6.2 release). Let me know if it
> works with that file.
> 
> I'll try to see when that file disappeared from CVS...

That file should NOT be in CVS.  It is boilerplate code that is
simply copied in by automake.  

It's not clear to me how you made the tarball, Baptiste.  It needs to
be done using "make distcheck" to create the tarball correctly:
several magical things happen to the unix Makefiles at that time.

If you wish, I can generate a tarball.  Let me know.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Volker Boerchers" <vbo...@te...>
> To: "Baptiste Lepilleur" <gai...@fr...>
> Cc: <cpp...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] CppUnit 1.7.8 tar ball
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Baptiste Lepilleur wrote:
> 
> > >  - Autoconf version 2.13 (shouldn't matter, but...)
> >
> > It might: from readme.CVS:
> > <<
> > to generate the configure script, you need several auxiliary
> > tools.  The version numbers are minimal: later versions should
> > also work.
> >
> >  autoconf 2.50
> >  - see http://www.gnu.org/directory/autoconf.html
> 
> autoconf generates configure from configure.in . Since this happens while
> preparing the distribution - and the generated configure is part of the
> distribution - it should not matter. (It's the aim of the autotools to
> increase portability...)

This is true.  The file README.CVS is for someone working directly
from the CVS sources.  The tarball, if correctly constituted, does
not require any of the autotools.


> The configure script (line 1384) contains a dependency to a file that is
> not part of the distribution, config/depcomp. If you have it, you could
> try to add it to the EXTRA_DIST variable in the toplevel Makefile.am and
> see if it is part of the distribution then.

Don't do this manually.  It's part of the magic that happens during
"make dist".


Regards,
-Steve



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