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automake/autoconf problem

hi,

i'm fairly new with automake and i ran into a problem that i have found no solution for. so i have a setup where i don't want all the output files generated by the compiler and alike in my src directory, instead i created a build/unix folder and i have build/unix/config set for AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. then i ran ../../configure from here and everything works just fine. however when i wanted to add platform specific options and used AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM then configure was unable to locate anything from the config directory (like install-sh).

another thing i tried is to put all the configuration files into build/unix and ran configure with --srdir=../../src but it failed on sanity check with the following error: "ls -t appears to fal"

any suggestions how should i solve this problem or is there a good guide that have some more complex examples?

thanks in advance
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ACLOCAL(1)							   User Commands							ACLOCAL(1)

NAME
aclocal - manual page for aclocal 1.15.1 SYNOPSIS
aclocal [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Generate 'aclocal.m4' by scanning 'configure.ac' or 'configure.in' OPTIONS
--automake-acdir=DIR directory holding automake-provided m4 files --system-acdir=DIR directory holding third-party system-wide files --diff[=COMMAND] run COMMAND [diff -u] on M4 files that would be changed (implies --install and --dry-run) --dry-run pretend to, but do not actually update any file --force always update output file --help print this help, then exit -I DIR add directory to search list for .m4 files --install copy third-party files to the first -I directory --output=FILE put output in FILE (default aclocal.m4) --print-ac-dir print name of directory holding system-wide third-party m4 files, then exit --verbose don't be silent --version print version number, then exit -W, --warnings=CATEGORY report the warnings falling in CATEGORY Warning categories include: syntax dubious syntactic constructs (default) unsupported unknown macros (default) all all the warnings (default) no-CATEGORY turn off warnings in CATEGORY none turn off all the warnings error treat warnings as errors AUTHOR
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>. GNU Automake home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>. General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for aclocal is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and aclocal programs are properly installed at your site, the command info aclocal should give you access to the complete manual. aclocal 1.15.1 March 2018 ACLOCAL(1)