Re: tarball should include m4-files needed for autoconf

"Scott Smith" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mjpeg.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/28/07, Bernhard Praschinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Like having a empty directory (called missing_m4) we just fill for the
> final build on the "developers" system with the missing sdl.m4, glib.m4
> and gtk.m4 files. Maybe we add a file that tells the people that want to
> make a package from the mjpegtools which files they should add. And why
> we have that directory.

wouldn't you just use 'EXTRA_DIST' or some other automake flag?

> But has anybody a answer which version of the sdl.m4 file I should add ?

I *think* the answer to that is the same as "which version of
autoconf/automake should I use to build configure?"  Which is to say
"new enough to successfully build mjpegtools, newer if you have it"
:-) But I could be wrong.
-- 
        Scott

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