Re: [sabayon] AC_CONFIG_FILES incomplete?

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:31 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 19:11 +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:50 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> > > The macro AC_CONFIG_FILES in sabayon/configure.ac seems rather
> > > incomplete. Am I missing something? Shouldn't all the *.in files be
> > > listed? I noticed the problem when the various scripts in /bin
> > > and /usr/sbin were referring to things in /usr/local/share/sabayon
> > > instead of /usr/share/sabayon.
> > 
> > 	No, the other ones get generated from the Makefiles.
> 
> Found it, but why is it being done this way? 

	Like I said, its done from the Makefile because it uses variables
defined by automake rather than autoconf. Its actually quite common
practive in GNOME for things like .server files. I've no attachment to
the method, so feel free to fix.

> They would be screwed, sabayon would have two installation roots, one
> from the rpm and one from the developement tree and no matter how many
> times one tried to correct it in the development tree it would never get
> fixed because there are no dependencies on the .in's. Ask me how I
> discovered this problem :-) :-)

	But that's the same behaviour as pretty much anything else. What are
you suggesting?

Cheers,
Mark.