Re: [sr #108278] AC_CANONICAL_BUILD depends on install-sh, but it does not get installed

Guillaume Melquiond <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Message-ID <CAA9cH716EsDFPr7ZPhP37cZdxgi8jwLSvFOaL3XD53uxsRgk=A@mail.gmail.com>
On 2013/4/1, Eric Blake wrote:

> Follow-up Comment #4, sr #108278 (project autoconf):
>
> Can you please also post your patch to [email protected]?  Not
> everyone
> likes being forced to open a browser just to review a patch.


Here it is.
0001-doc-mention-that-some-required-auxiliary-files-might.patch (application/octet-stream, 994 B)
From d3419ae67b2707cafd4860eb42f96e82aceae8e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Melquiond <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:55:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention that some required auxiliary files might not be
 installed by autoreconf -i


diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index f895e47..27ec409 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1745,6 +1745,12 @@ If deemed appropriate, this option triggers calls to
 @samp{automake --add-missing},
 @samp{libtoolize}, @samp{autopoint}, etc.
 
+Please note that @samp{autoreconf -i} will not install the auxiliary
+files @file{install-sh}, @file{config.sub}, and @file{config.guess},
+which are required by macros such as @code{AC_PROG_INSTALL} and
+@code{AC_CANONICAL_BUILD}, unless the project is also using
+@command{automake}.
+
 @item --no-recursive
 Do not rebuild files in subdirectories to configure (see @ref{Subdirectories},
 macro @code{AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS}).
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