[news.eclipse.technology.linuxtools] Re: Using autoheader and libtoolize

[jjohnstn@xxxxxxxxxx (Jeff Johnston)]

Matthias Jeschke wrote:

> Hi,

> I'am currently working on a project that uses autotools and as I'am used 
> to eclipse I want import this project as a C++ autotools project. 
> Everything works fine, except that for building the project autoheader and 
> libtoolize must be called to create the appropriate config.h.in etc.

> What would be the best way to call autoheader and libtoolize from within 
> eclipse? Is there a way to add these calls to autogen.sh?

Matthias,

The current Autotools plugin doesn't currently support direct calling of 
autoheader and libtoolize as it does for autoconf, automake, and aclocal, 
but as you have correctly guessed, you can place these calls into an 
autogen.sh script which is run as part of the Autotools configuration 
step.  Autotools expects that autogen.sh is only run once and that 
configure will be created as part of the autogen.sh invocation so it does 
not run autogen.sh if configure already exists in the build directory.

Feel free to open RFEs to add UI support to Autotools for calling 
autoheader and libtoolize if you want to track the addition of those 
features.

-- Jeff J.