RE: Help: Missing something simple...

[Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>]

Hello, David!

> Exactly the same results each time.  I believe the above installations are
> correct, but is there something I could do to verify it other than use
> '--version' flag which reports the right information.  It appears that
> aclocal.m4 isn't having an effect on the output (except to cause
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to go away).  Any ideas?

I should have tried your example before posting my previous message :-(

You should swap AC_INIT and AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE. Autoconf ignores everything
before AC_INIT (to be exact, it doesn't write anything to configure before
it meets AC_INIT).

Next thing you will need to do is to use something more persistent as the
argument to AC_INIT. I usually use a source file which is not going to be
moved or deleted.

Please read "info autoconf" and "info automake". Both autoconf and
automake are not fool-proof. They can detect some errors, but definitely
not all.

Pavel Roskin