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Re: Error in configuring setup.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 08:32:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup.
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5F8F@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
- Reply-to: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:27 PM
> > To: Robert Collins
> > Cc: Earnie Boyd
> > Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup.
> >
> >
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:52 AM
> > > > To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> > > > Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> > > > Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Required AUTHORS and NEWS files are missing.
> > >
> > > Required by what?
> > >
> >
> > It was required by some instance of automake execution.
>
> Ah. Ok, when you run automake, by default it runs in gnu mode, where it
> requires a number of files that the GNU package distribution / coding
> standards require - such as AUTHORS/NEWS/COPYING/README etc etc. The
> --foreign switch in bootstrap.sh disables that, allowing us to
> distribute what we choose.
>
You should add it to AM_AUTOMAKE_FLAGS in Makefile.am, IIRC, or maybe
its configure.ac.
Earnie.