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Re: first time automaking question
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Steve M. Robbins |
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Re: first time automaking question |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:33:15 -0400 |
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:15:24PM -0500, Sean Finney wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:34:48AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > >>> "Sean" == Sean Finney <address@hidden> writes:
> > Sean> - ./configure now tests for auto* and makeinfo
> >
> > Sean> is that really necessary?
> >
> > Yes. Automake create Makefiles that know how to rerun the auto*
> > tools when necessary. So configure check for them.
>
> does this introduce any problems if the target machine doesn't
> have (or has ancient versions of) auto*? or, if the auto* isn't
> found, does it just not implement said functionality?
Yes and no. You can run into trouble if the target machine has a
different version (older OR newer!) of autoconf or automake. Mostly
this is due to a badly-written macro which is, sadly, rather common.
However, if *no* autotools are detected, updating the Makefile.in or
configure file just doesn't happen, as you suspected.
You can completely disable these "maintainer rules" in the
*distributed* makefiles via the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro. Look it up
in the automake docs.
-S
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- first time automaking question, Sean Finney, 2002/04/09
- Re: first time automaking question, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/10
- Re: first time automaking question, Sean Finney, 2002/04/10
- Re: first time automaking question, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: first time automaking question,
Steve M. Robbins <=
- Re: first time automaking question, Chadwick A. McHenry, 2002/04/11
- maintainer mode (Was: Re: first time automaking question), Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode (Was: Re: first time automaking question), Chadwick A. McHenry, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Eric Siegerman, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Andy M. Helten, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Andy M. Helten, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Russ Allbery, 2002/04/11
- Re: maintainer mode, Tom Tromey, 2002/04/12
- Re: maintainer mode, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/04/11