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

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Johnston wrote:
> 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.

Hi

why does it use (and expect) autogen.sh, instead of relying on autoreconf?

cheers
	Lorenzo

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