Re: Conditional AC_CONFIG_FILES

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Brian,

* Brian wrote on Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:27:42PM CET:
> 
> The error I typically get is this:
> ~/Desktop/hello-2.2 $ automake (or autoreconf)
> configure.ac:56: required file `$test.in' not found
> 
> Where I specified AC_CONFIG_FILES([$test]). It just looks for a literal no
> matter what!

Ah, now you're having a problem with Automake, not Autoconf.
Automake's requirements on what you can put in AC_CONFIG_FILES
are a bit peculiar, unfortunately.  This section explains it:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Requirements

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf