Re: Using automake to install config.sub and config.guess

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "William" == William S Fulton <wsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>  William> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>  >>>>> "William" == William S Fulton <wsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>  William> We are using AC_CANONICAL_HOST which requires config.sub
>  >> and
>  William> config.guess. We'd like to pick these files up from automake which
>  William> regularly updates these on each automake release. We are using
>  William> automake but not libtool so can't use libtoolize which is able to
>  William> install them. Also
>  William> automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
>  >> There is a fix for this bug in CVS.  Automake 1.9.1 will update
>  >> these files on such incantation.
>  William> Okay that's great. 
>
> Sorry, I answered too fast.  The fix I was talking about is for
> AC_CANONICAL_TARGET and AC_CANONICAL_BUILD which were not
> recognized.  
>
> I cannot reproduce your problem with AC_CANONICAL_HOST, it
> appears to work just fine: automake --add-missing --copy
> --force-missing DOES overwrite config.sub and config.guess.

I've narrowed the problem down and it can be demonstrated with a cut down 
version of our build structure. See the testcase below. The problem is with 
subdirectories and the root directory containing a Makefile.in rather than a 
Makefile.am. Is there perhaps anything I can put in the root Makefile.in to get 
config.sub and config.guess installed?

William

. ./defs || exit 1

mkdir one

cat > configure.in << 'END'
AC_INIT
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(nonesuch, nonesuch)
AC_OUTPUT(Makefile one/Makefile)
END

# These two lines succeed in getting automake to install config.sub and 
config.guess
#cat > Makefile.am << 'END'
#END

# These two lines fail to get automake to install config.sub and config.guess
cat > Makefile.in << 'END'
END

cat > one/Makefile.am << 'END'
END

$ACLOCAL || exit 1
$AUTOCONF
$AUTOMAKE --add-missing
./configure