[debbugs-tracker] bug#17258: closed (autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux)

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> autogen.sh doesn't update stale autoconf files in build-aux
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> Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:17:16 +0200
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> While troubleshooting a problem with configure on my system, I found
> that autogen.sh never updated these autoconf files in build-aux, so they
> were still the same as when they had been generated/copied three years
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> build-aux/compile
> build-aux/config.guess
> build-aux/config.sub
> build-aux/install-sh
> build-aux/missing
> build-aux/depcomp
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> Apparently these files are just checked for existence unless the
> "--force" option is also given (which autogen.sh doesn't do).  I'm
> currently using autoconf 2.69 if that matters.
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> Regards,
> Achim.
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> In trunk bzr 116975 I changed autogen.sh to use autoreconf's -f option, 
> which should fix the bug.  -f won't hurt in the typical case when 
> autogen.sh is being invoked in freshly checked-out sources, and might 
> help in cases where autoreconf itself has been upgraded.
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> GNU make should do this automatically when things go well, but there are 
> a lot of reasons timestamps can be messed up in a source tree and 
> autogen.sh should try to be helpful when recovering from such problems.
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