Re: preprocessor definitions with am, ac and ah without template files

[Christian Kreibich]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 18:05, Christian Kreibich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm in trouble with autoconf 2.50 (or newer) and automake 1.5 (or
> newer). Since upgrading from my trusted 2.13/1.4 combination where
> things still used to work, autoheader has been spitting out the warning
> 
> WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
> WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
> WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
> WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
> WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
> WARNING: `acconfig.h':
> WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
> WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
> WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
> WARNING: documentation.
> 
> I used to use acconfig.h. So I thouht I'd try to clean this up, have
> removed acconfig.h, and updated my configure.ac accordingly. After
> adding AC_CONFIG_HEADERS to configure.ac, autoheader is happy, but
> automake fails with "automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not
> `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'". If I use AM_CONFIG_HEADER instead, autoheader
> complains "autoheader2.50: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in
> configure.ac".
> 
> So, how do I solve this? automake still appears to be doing its job, but
> returns an error code of 1 which causes make to abort. I've tried a
> number of version combinations and am now on ac 2.53 and am 1.6.2, but I
> just cannot work around this.

Erm ... hello? Anyone else? Still couldn't solve this. Please let me
know if I'm posting to the wrong list for this or if this has been
answered a million times before, but I couldn't google it up or find it
in the archives. Thanks.

Cheers,
Christian.
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