Re: [Axiom-developer] [build-improvements] Requests for discussion

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Ralf Hemmecke <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| > | I know that "make" checks whether the "Makefile" is as new as it could
| > | be. But does it check whether there is Makefile.in or Makefile.am and
| > | re-generates the Makefile from that???
| > No.  Makefile.in usually contains variables that need to be
| > substituted.  Makefile.am is even at higher level.  You need
| > Automake.  Now, when you have the full Autotools in place, if you
| > modify Makefile.am or configure.ac and you say "make", there usually
| > is a dectection and autoconf is run to regenerate
| 
| But I never modify Makefile.am or configure.ac.

That is right.  But Autotools have implicit dependency on those.

-- Gaby