Re: autogen support needed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Harlan,

* Harlan Stenn wrote on Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 09:56:25PM CEST:
> 
> I'm using GNU AutoGen in the upcoming release of NTP and I need support
> for GNU AutoGen in 'missing' as only a tiny number of developers will be
> making changes to the "source" files that are processed by AutoGen, and
> many developers are complaining about either not wanting to install
> autogen and guile or the difficulties they are having trying to get
> guile installed on their systems.
> 
> Regardless of the latter point, it would be Good for the "missing"
> script to support GNU AutoGen.
> 
> What can I do to make this happen quickly?

Write a patch?  :-)  [1]

To be serious: I don't know autogen.  What autogen options are important
for "missing", how can it find out output file names, should they be
touched so that a subsequent make run won't try to build them again?

http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/man1-autogen.html suggests that the
output file name computation may not be easy.

Cheers,
Ralf

[1] If you require this support in a released version of Automake, then
    obviously there may lie more than one patch ahead.  ;-)