Re: [gnugo-devel] autotools

[Jens Yllman]

autoreconf -f should force rebuild of all files needed buy autoconf/automake.
I have not yet verified that it copies/recreates aclocal.m4. But I think it
should.

Have you changed in configure.ac to require these versions of automake/autoconf?

I do not remember what version of autoconf where they change how you init
configure.ac. But they changed so you use different macros to init the
configure script. I will try to check today how it look in gungo-3.7.10.

Jens

> Previously configure was made with autoconf 2.52 which is not much
> distributed any more. I put up a patch at:
>
> http://match.stanford.edu/gnugo/autotools_revisions
>
> After this and (as Gunnar suggested) removing acconfig.h
> things seem to work with:
>
> automake and aclocal 1.9.5
> autoconfig and autoheader 2.59
> GNU m4 1.4.2
>
> These are the versions that are distributed with debian
> sarge (assuming you install automake-1.9).
>
> Of course, the usual person building GNU Go doesn't run
> automake or autoconf. Since sporadic will be reinstalled
> at some point this change will have to be made sooner
> or later and it's probably better to make it before
> 3.7.11 so that the change gets tested.
>
> Dan