[Pm-utils] [PATCH] Much simpler autogen.sh for our needs

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Thu Feb 7 11:15:44 PST 2008


On Thu February 7 2008, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> The current autogen.sh script had way too much baggage for what we use
> in pm-utils. My guess is it was copied from a GNOME package.
>
> Anyway, this slims down autogen.sh to just use autoreconf, which will do
> the right thing. This autogen.sh is a virtual copy of the "official"
> script used in Xorg.

Imho at least a warning that one needs to install autoconf, when there is no 
autoreconf may be helpful for people who do not know autotools. Does 
autoreconf also provide useful warnings when the other binaries are missing, 
that it needs, e.g. automake, like the old autogen.sh script did?

Regards,
Till
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