Re: [bug-gawk] aclocal-1.15 direct dependency/requirement

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> I think the real question is why aclocal is being run in the first place. The
> tarball includes a functioning configure script and Makefiles, so it shouldn't
> be necessary to run the autotools again.  Are you touching configure.ac?
> The bootstrap.sh script could possibly be useful for freshening the timestamps
> to avoid re-running autotools, but that's not typically necessary when 
> building
> from a tarball.

Ah, OK, I guess you're applying commit bd8a8ad0c258d2db31e420eec81932cf15bf9702
which which patches configure.ac. So that's why it's trying to rebuild the
configure script.

In configure.ac, it says:
   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.15 dist-xz dist-lzip])

According to the automake docs:

VERSION
     A version number (e.g., '0.30') can be specified.  If Automake is
     not newer than the version specified, creation of the 'Makefile.in'
     will be suppressed.

I would guess that a newer version of automake, i.e. 1.16 instead of 1.15,
should be OK.

Have you tried running "autoreconf --force -i" before running configure
and make?

Regards,
Andy