[En-Nut-Discussion] Building NutOS (especially qnutconf) using Autotools

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi Harald,

> > ./autogen and ./configure in the root folder or in each seperate folder
> > of each tool.
> 
> As stated previously, compiling and installing worked so far.

Fine!

> However, while trying to create the source package for the next release
> I got stuck. Hopefully someone can help. I'm not that good with Linux
> and autotools.
> 
> With the old version 4.8 I ran
> 
>  ./reconf
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make distcheck
> 
> which tests the build and, if everything went well, creates the source
> package, read for distribution. Possibly, when running on a fresh tree,
> I needed to run
> 
>  ./reconf
>  automake --add-missing
> 
> first. Now make distcheck fails with
> 
> *** No rule to make target `INSTALL', needed by `distdir'.

Hm, ok. I did not test the "distcheck" target so far. I will do this
ASAP! but will not manage it before Friday.

> May be related to this: How can I completely clean the tree again, so
> that 'svn stat' will not reported new files? Previously I used 'make
> maintainer-clean', which still works. But it doesn't really clean
> everything. Is there any other simple way to do this?

Possibly I did not yet added all files to "maintainer clean
files" (spelled a little bit different) in the Makefile.am.

Will just add the missing files too.

> 
> Last question: Ole recommended to call
> 
>  ./autogen
> 
> and
> 
>  ./configure
> 
> (I assume he meant ./autogen.sh, because there is no ./autogen).

Right.

> But is ./configure really required? I have the impression that it
> executes the same procedures as ./autogen.sh does.

As last action autogen calls ./configure. So you do not need it if you
just called autogen.sh.

Autogen.sh does more or less the same thing like the previous ./reconf
script. It creates the configure script from configure.ac and adds
(links) missing files to the source tree.

> Btw. no emergency. Linux users may download the tree from the repository.

:) I'll care on it on friday!

Bye,

Ole

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