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