Mark Hobley schrieb:

Mark,

> I am running automake with the --foreign switch, but I am getting errors
> during build.

> configure.ac:26: required file `./missing' not found
> configure.ac:26: `automake --add-missing' can install `missing'
> configure.ac:26: required file `./install-sh' not found
> configure.ac:26: `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh'
> src/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> src/Makefile.am: `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp
>
> I know that these files can be generated using the add-missing tool.

you can simply apply

autoreconf -i

to get rid of these messages.

> I would like to suppress installation of these files altogether. Is that
> possible?

I would first like to ask: 'Does this idea make sense at all?'

> Is there any documentation relating to the purpose of these files?

What about reading the automake handbook?

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake...l/automake.pdf

Guido

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