autotools.eclass

Name

autotools.eclass -- Regenerates auto* build scripts

Description

This eclass is for safely handling autotooled software packages that need to regenerate their build scripts. All functions will abort in case of errors.

Supported EAPIs

6 7 8

Functions

eautoreconf

This function mimes the behavior of autoreconf, but uses the different eauto* functions to run the tools. It doesn't accept parameters, but the directory with include files can be specified with AT_M4DIR variable.

Should do a full autoreconf - normally what most people will be interested in. Also should handle additional directories specified by AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS.

eaclocal_amflags

Extract the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS value from the Makefile.am and try to handle (most) of the crazy crap that people throw at us.

eaclocal

These functions runs the autotools using autotools_run_tool with the specified parametes. The name of the tool run is the same of the function without e prefix. They also force installing the support files for safety. Respects AT_M4DIR for additional directories to search for macros.

_elibtoolize

Runs libtoolize.

Note the _ prefix: avoid collision with elibtoolize from libtool.eclass.

eautoheader

Runs autoheader.

eautoconf

Runs autoconf.

eautomake

Runs automake.

eautopoint

Runs autopoint (from the sys-devel/gettext package).

config_rpath_update [destination]

Some packages utilize the config.rpath helper script, but don't use gettext directly. So we have to copy it in manually since we can't let autopoint do it for us.

Variables

WANT_AUTOCONF ?= latest (SET BEFORE INHERIT)

The major version of autoconf your package needs

WANT_AUTOMAKE ?= latest (SET BEFORE INHERIT)

The major version of automake your package needs

WANT_LIBTOOL ?= latest (SET BEFORE INHERIT)

Do you want libtool? Valid values here are latest and none.

AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND = "${_automake_atom} (GENERATED BY ECLASS)

Contains the combination of requested automake/autoconf/libtool versions in *DEPEND format.

AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND ?= yes (SET BEFORE INHERIT)

Set to no` to disable automatically adding to DEPEND. This lets ebuilds form conditional depends by using ${AUTOTOOLS_DEPEND} in their own DEPEND string.

AM_OPTS

Additional options to pass to automake during eautoreconf call.

AT_NOEAUTOHEADER

Don't run eautoheader command if set to yes; only used to work around packages that don't want their headers being modified.

AT_NOEAUTOMAKE

Don't run eautomake command if set to yes; only used to workaround broken packages. Generally you should, instead, fix the package to not call AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE if it doesn't actually use automake.

AT_NOELIBTOOLIZE

Don't run elibtoolize command if set to yes, useful when elibtoolize needs to be ran with particular options

AT_M4DIR

Additional director(y|ies) aclocal should search

Maintainers

base-system@gentoo.org

Reporting Bugs

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