# (at your option) any later version.
# Please read the file COPYING, README and AUTHORS for more information.
#
-# $Id: autogen.sh,v 1.10 2004/03/15 20:32:31 alex Exp $
+# $Id: autogen.sh,v 1.15 2007/10/07 13:02:15 alex Exp $
#
#
#
# You can tweak the behaviour using these environment variables:
#
-# - ALICA=<cmd>, AUTOHEADER=<cmd>, AUTOMAKE=<cmd>, AUTOCONF=<cmd>
+# - ACLOCAL=<cmd>, AUTOHEADER=<cmd>, AUTOMAKE=<cmd>, AUTOCONF=<cmd>
# Name and optionally path to the particular tool.
# - PREFIX=<path>
# Search the GNU autoconf and GNU automake tools in <path> first. If the
# generated ./configure script will be called, pass "--prefix=<path>" to it.
+# - EXIST=<tool>
+# Use <tool> to test for aclocal, autoheader etc. pp. ...
+# When not specified, either "type" or "which" is used.
# - VERBOSE=1
# Output the detected names of the GNU automake and GNU autoconf tools.
# - GO=1
major="$2"
minor=99
- [ -n "$PREFIX" ] && searchlist="${PREFIX}$1 ${PREFIX}/bin/$1 $searchlist"
+ [ -n "$PREFIX" ] && searchlist="${PREFIX}/$1 ${PREFIX}/bin/$1 $searchlist"
for name in $searchlist; do
- type "${name}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+ $EXIST "${name}" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "${name}"
return 0
while [ $minor -ge 0 ]; do
for name in $searchlist; do
- type "${name}${major}${minor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+ $EXIST "${name}${major}${minor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "${name}${major}${minor}"
return 0
fi
- type "${name}-${major}.${minor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+ $EXIST "${name}-${major}.${minor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
- echo "${name}-${major}.${minor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+ echo "${name}-${major}.${minor}"
return 0
fi
done
unset LC_ALL
unset LANG
-# We want to use GNU automake 1.7, if available (WANT_AUTOMAKE is used by
-# the wrapper scripts of Gentoo Linux):
-WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.7
-export WANT_AUTOMAKE
+# Which command should be used to detect the automake/autoconf tools?
+[ -z "$EXIST" ] && existlist="type which" || existlist="$EXIST"
+EXIST=""
+for t in $existlist; do
+ $t /bin/ls >/dev/null 2>&1
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ rm -f /tmp/test.$$
+ $t /tmp/test.$$ >/dev/null 2>&1
+ [ $? -ne 0 ] && EXIST="$t"
+ fi
+ [ -n "$EXIST" ] && break
+done
+if [ -z "$EXIST" ]; then
+ echo "Didn't detect a working command to test for the autoconf/automake tools!"
+ echo "Searchlist: $existlist"
+ exit 1
+fi
+[ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ] && echo "Using \"$EXIST\" to test for tools."
+
+# We want to use GNU automake 1.9, if available (WANT_AUTOMAKE is used by
+# the wrapper scripts of Gentoo Linux, AUTOMAKE_VERSION is used by OpenBSD);
+# same applies for GNU autoconf, we want to use version 2.59. -- But only
+# set these preferences if not already set!
+if [ -z "$AUTOMAKE_VERSION" -a -z "$WANT_AUTOMAKE" ]; then
+ AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9
+ WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9
+fi
+if [ -z "$AUTOCONF_VERSION" -a -z "$WANT_AUTOCONF" ]; then
+ AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.59
+ WANT_AUTOCONF=2.59
+fi
+export AUTOMAKE_VERSION WANT_AUTOMAKE AUTOCONF_VERSION WANT_AUTOCONF
# Try to detect the needed tools when no environment variable already
-# spezifies one:
+# specifies one:
echo "Searching tools ..."
[ -z "$ACLOCAL" ] && ACLOCAL=`Search aclocal 1`
+[ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ] && echo "ACLOCAL=$ACLOCAL"
[ -z "$AUTOHEADER" ] && AUTOHEADER=`Search autoheader 2`
+[ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ] && echo "AUTOHEADER=$AUTOHEADER"
[ -z "$AUTOMAKE" ] && AUTOMAKE=`Search automake 1`
+[ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ] && echo "AUTOMAKE=$AUTOMAKE"
[ -z "$AUTOCONF" ] && AUTOCONF=`Search autoconf 2`
+[ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ] && echo "AUTOCONF=$AUTOCONF"
-# Some debugging output ...
-if [ -n "$VERBOSE" ]; then
- echo "ACLOCAL=$ACLOCAL"
- echo "AUTOHEADER=$AUTOHEADER"
- echo "AUTOMAKE=$AUTOMAKE"
- echo "AUTOCONF=$AUTOCONF"
-fi
+# Call ./configure when parameters have been passed to this script and
+# GO isn't already defined.
+[ -z "$GO" -a $# -gt 0 ] && GO=1
# Verify that all tools have been found
-[ -z "$AUTOCONF" ] && Notfounf autoconf
+[ -z "$AUTOCONF" ] && Notfound autoconf
[ -z "$AUTOHEADER" ] && Notfound autoheader
[ -z "$AUTOMAKE" ] && Notfound automake
[ -z "$AUTOCONF" ] && Notfound autoconf
if [ $? -eq 0 -a -x ./configure ]; then
# Success: if we got some parameters we call ./configure and pass
# all of them to it.
- if [ -n "$*" -o -n "$GO" ]; then
+ if [ "$GO" = "1" ]; then
[ -n "$PREFIX" ] && p=" --prefix=$PREFIX" || p=""
[ -n "$*" ] && a=" $*" || a=""
c="./configure${p}${a}"