Re: Outdated config.guess and config.sub

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Ulrich Klauer <ulrich@chirlu.de> wrote:
> > > This can be done by e.g. calling "autoreconf --force".
> > Perhaps we should make this run unconditionally in release.sh. Running
> > the script will take a few seconds more, but we'd be sure to have the
> > most recent versions in each release.
> 
> As it turns out, "autoreconf --force" doesn't update the auxiliary  
> files. "autoreconf --install --force" *does* do it, but also  
> overwrites INSTALL. :-(  So the right way seems to be to delete the  
> relevant files (config.guess, config.sub; depcomp, install-sh, missing  
> as well? more?) and then run "autoreconf -i" without --force.

AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) seems to avoid clobbering INSTALL.
I'm no autotools expert, but I remember reading somewhere foreign
was recommended for nearly all non-GNU projects...

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ m4_ifdef([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR], [AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])])
 dnl Find target architecture
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 dnl create a config.h file (Automake will add -DHAVE_CONFIG_H)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(src/soxconfig.h)

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