RE: Help: Missing something simple...

["Masterson, David" <David.Masterson@kla-tencor.com>]

That was the key!  My perusal of the info files did not turn up this.  The
autoconf info files talk about having AC_INIT near the beginning of the
file.  The automake info files talk about having AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE near the
beginning of the file.  However, I didn't see anything that said which
should come first.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:pavel_roskin@geocities.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 11:56 AM
To: Masterson, David
Cc: automake@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Help: Missing something simple...


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