autotools: Don't use "foreign" option.

This adds INSTALL and allows for a few more sanity checks being done.

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5f5c23c79a665348c3862557f41bc5c9435af597..93a54c3fcf5558bbd4bebcb14a4edcabc85a17a4 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ missing
 stamp-h1
 autostuff/
 ChangeLog
+INSTALL
 
 # recursive autoconf leftovers
 .deps

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..28c1b20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+AUTHORS
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Please check the source code files and/or git history and/or ChangeLog for
+a list of all authors and contributors.
+

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 8185af0ff59805251307db641375ef434859b667..d760233835e7598ab7f70018de2b36356dbd577b 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ echo "Generating build system..."
 ${LIBTOOLIZE} --install --copy --quiet || exit 1
 aclocal ${ACLOCAL_DIR} || exit 1
 autoheader || exit 1
-automake --add-missing --copy --foreign || exit 1
+automake --add-missing --copy || exit 1
 autoconf || exit 1
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a2d11f9de99279e862e107d5bd78da9775b779c1..76c05f717dba98ec15ab15e252e05086f967224d 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([autostuff])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([autostuff])
 
 # We require at least automake 1.11 (needed for 'silent rules').
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 -Wall -Werror foreign std-options])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 -Wall -Werror std-options check-news])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR])