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configure
Input
Every configure
script must call AC_INIT
before doing
anything else. The only other required macro is AC_OUTPUT
(see section Outputting Files).
configure
checks for this file's existence to
make sure that the directory that it is told contains the source code in
fact does. Occasionally people accidentally specify the wrong directory
with @option{--srcdir}; this is a safety check. See section @code{configure} Invocation, for more information.
Packages that do manual configuration or use the install
program
might need to tell configure
where to find some other shell
scripts by calling AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
, though the default places
it looks are correct for most cases.
configure
,
Automake and Libtool scripts etc.) that are in directory dir.
These are auxiliary files used in configuration. dir can be
either absolute or relative to `srcdir'. The default is
`srcdir' or `srcdir/..' or
`srcdir/../..', whichever is the first that contains
`install-sh'. The other files are not checked for, so that using
AC_PROG_INSTALL
does not automatically require distributing the
other auxiliary files. It checks for `install.sh' also, but that
name is obsolete because some @command{make} have a rule that creates
`install' from it if there is no `Makefile'.
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