[libvirt] where is autogen.sh on libvirt?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Jun 13 09:02:22 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:05:12AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:47:06PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am looking thorough the package on ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/
> > but cannot find autogen.sh files on 0.4.3 and snapshot package.
> > Is there any reason?
> > Of course cvs package have autogen.sh.
> 
>   Basically autogen.sh is used to bootstrap the configuration and
> building process, it has more dependancies than the resulting configure
> script. For that reason people which are not the developpers but 
> rather users of the software simply run ./configure which itself is
> part of the releases.

We should still include autogen.sh in the tar.gz, because people might
be wanting to do patches against the tar.gz whcih involve the configure.ac
or Makefile.am scripts.

Dan
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