[Techtalk] autoconf, automake and Arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello,

since 24 years I write my Makefile self, but now I have a problem!!!!

I am writing a new program which is a little bit bigger and I want to
use autoconf/automake to do the stuff but do not know, HOW TO BEGIN
with this pig!

OK, I have found 'autoscan' and it generates a configure.scan.

Hmmm, I was thinking it generates a configure.in.  OK, - renaming it.

Run now autoconf, - Oh wonder, I have now the 'configure' script.

Running this for testing I get:

----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
[michelle.konzack:devel.private:~/devel/tdimap-client] ./configure 
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.h.in
----8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

And now?

How can I get this config.h.in?

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Lost in the auto* world

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