Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/16/14:59:12
Eric Blake wrote:
> With the automake, autoconf, and libtool wrapper scripts presently in
> cygwin, the scripts do not gracefully handle --version and --help from
> an empty directory (that is, a directory with no configure.in):
>
> $ cd /tmp
> $ autoconf --version
> autoconf: no input file
> $ automake --version
> automake: Couldn't find configure.ac nor configure.in file
> $ libtool --version
> libtool: Couldn't find configure.ac nor configure.in file
>
> However, the *-devel versions work just fine in the same situation:
> $ /usr/autotool/devel/bin/autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
> ...
As do the *-stable versions:
$ /usr/autotool/stable/bin/autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13
> I would like to see this patched so that if any of these tools are
> executed but no configure.in is found, the wrapper scripts defer to the
> *-devel version, so that the --version and --help output is still useful
> instead of an error. Unfortunately, I am not a shell script programmer,
> so I can't offer much assistance in this matter.
I have already been given a patch to do this, but I am a little
concerned about implementation. It makes sense to me, to defer to the
-devel version, but I am concerned about ripple effects...
IMO, if you are libtoolizing (autoconf'ing, automake'ing) a new
directory that has no existing configure.in, then the suggested
solutions should be sufficient:
create a temporary configure.in that has only "AC_REQUIRE(2.52)"
or
set path = /usr/autotool/devel/bin
Setting up the wrapper scripts to report one version or the other --
with no reason to prefer one over the other, such as a pre-existing
configure.in file -- is just lying.
> Also, I think it might be a good idea when --version is passed to the
> wrapper scripts to append a line to the output of the *-stable or
> *-devel to further indicate the version of the wrapper script. That
> way, I can recognize that the wrapper is automake 2.52 compliant even if
> it invoked in a directory which falls back on the automake-stable 2.13
> for execution.
No, changing the output format of the version string will break scripts
that need to parse that output. Such as configure itself.
--Chuck
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