configure spewage on clean svn tree due to missing POTFILES

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Jan 8 19:05:47 EST 2006


Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

>> Note:  this was with a completely clean checkout; autogen had never
>> been run before on this tree.
>
> [I didn't look at the script yet, but...]  Is that legit usage?  I
> thought you _have_ to run autogen.sh on the svn tree before configure.
> I thought the _whole_point_ of autogen.sh was to encapsulate all
> prerequisite actions for configure.  I mean, if you had a configure,
> you must've run at least _some_ of what's in autogen.sh (autoconf),
> right?
>
> I don't know why it would make a difference, but does running
> autogen.sh first fix it?  (I'd be surprised if it does.)

Sorry, I wasn't clear...  Yes, I ran autogen before running configure.
What I meant was that this was the first run through autogen;configure.

> -chris

-derek

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