Re: fix an error message during configure

[Bruno Haible]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> The './autogen.sh' step in opencsw fails:
> https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/waterfall?category=texinfo
> 
> It fails since commit
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=d695e0fbef88a285884ccd1f1661d13b75013a39

Yes, it fails in my CI as well:

  aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake 
  (cd tp/Texinfo/XS && libtoolize  && aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && 
autoheader && automake)
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: linking file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'gnulib/m4'.
libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'gnulib/m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:132: error: required file './compile' not found
configure.ac:132:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
configure.ac:134: error: required file './config.guess' not found
configure.ac:134:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.guess'
configure.ac:134: error: required file './config.sub' not found
configure.ac:134:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'config.sub'
configure.ac:14: error: required file './install-sh' not found
configure.ac:14:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'install-sh'
configure.ac:14: error: required file './missing' not found
configure.ac:14:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'missing'
Makefile.am: error: required file './depcomp' not found
Makefile.am:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'depcomp'

Fixed through the attached patch.

More precisely, fixed through the second part of the attached patch.
The first part serves the purpose of updating the same files also
in the build-aux/ directory, so that you don't risk distributing
outdated files for 6 years any more :) But it assumes that the
main contributors are all on the same Automake version, otherwise
one guy gets differences, commits them, and then the other contributor
gets the reverse differences.

Bruno

0001-build-Tell-automake-to-install-various-build-aux-fil.patch
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