./depcomp' not found

[John David Anglin]

> On Dec 15, 2000, "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > cd ../../fastjar && automake --foreign --include-deps Makefile
> > automake: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
> 
> > The version of automake is 1.4a.
> 
> If you let a different version of automake rebuild these files, you
> may need `--add-missing' too, so that it creates the missing script.
> But you shouldn't need to rebuild the Makefiles, just use the new
> contrib/gcc_update --touch and it will make sure the timestamps of all
> autoconf and automake generated files are correct.

The question in my mind is why depcomp isn't included with fastjar.  I
wouldn't have to bother with this if it was.  Various other GNU
software packages include it.  This works around the automake feature.

Dave
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