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Re: Help: Missing something simple...
"Masterson, David" <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com> writes:
> Starting from a fresh directory (ie. no configure / Makefile / Makefile.in),
> to generate the Makefile for this, I do:
>
> $ aclocal
> $ autoconf
> $ automake -a
> $ configure --prefix=$TARGET
>
> Examining the Makefile after this, I find that none of the Automake
> variables were properly expanded (particularly @PACKAGE@ and @VERSION@ -- in
> fact, all uppercase variables). What am I missing?
autoconf turns ``Makefile.in'' into ``Makefile'' and automake turns
``Makefile.am'' into ``Makefile.in''. You only start with a ``Makefile.am'',
ergo you must run "automake -a" *before* "autoconf".
Cheers,
Gary.
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