build tweaks - use automake's foreign mode, avoid creating empty file…

…s to satisfy gnu mode - run autoreconf -f to ensure that everything matches

autogen.sh

@@ -1,14 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-
-# automake demands these files exist when run in gnu mode which is the default,
-# automake can be run in foreign mode to avoid failing on the absence of these
-# files, but unfortunately there is no way to pass the --foreign flag to
-# automake when run from autoreconf.
-for f in NEWS README AUTHORS ChangeLog; do
-    if [ ! -e $f ]; then
-        touch $f
-    fi
-done
-
-autoreconf -i
+autoreconf -i -f
 ./configure ${1+"$@"}

contrib/RHEL4/configure.ac

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_INIT([ipa-client],
         [0.99.0],
         [http://www.freeipa.org/])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 

daemons/configure.ac

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AC_INIT([ipa-server],
 
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 AC_PROG_CC

install/configure.ac

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ AC_INIT([ipa-server],
 #AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ipaserver/ipaldap.py])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 #AC_PROG_CC

ipa-client/configure.ac

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([ipaclient/__init__.py])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 

ipa.spec.in

@@ -223,10 +223,6 @@ administering radius authentication settings in IPA.
 export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS %{optflags}"
 export CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS %{optflags}"
 make version-update
-%if ! %{ONLY_CLIENT}
-touch daemons/NEWS daemons/README daemons/AUTHORS daemons/ChangeLog
-touch install/NEWS install/README install/AUTHORS install/ChangeLog
-%endif
 cd ipa-client; ../autogen.sh --prefix=%{_usr} --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} --localstatedir=%{_localstatedir} --libdir=%{_libdir} --mandir=%{_mandir}; cd ..
 %if ! %{ONLY_CLIENT}
 cd daemons; ../autogen.sh --prefix=%{_usr} --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir} --localstatedir=%{_localstatedir} --libdir=%{_libdir} --mandir=%{_mandir}; cd ..