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Re: Stopping aclocal from re-building
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Ralf Corsepius |
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Re: Stopping aclocal from re-building |
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Mon, 24 May 2004 07:35:36 +0200 |
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 15:53, David Knox wrote:
> Thanks Patrick,
> Your suggestion appears to solve aclocal.m4 from getting overwritten. I
> didn't realize that adding macros to m4 is a bad practice but knowing
> what I've learned, I can see the problem.
That's not quite correct. Adding macros to aclocal.m4 is a "no-no",
because aclocal.m4 normally (when using automake) is a generated file.
With automake, if you want to add macros, use acinclude.m4, and leave
aclocal.m4 be automatically generated.
> I very much would like to stop autoconf from generating the rules to
> re-run aclocal, automake, and autoconf.
You don't really want to do this.
Automake generated Makefiles are supposed to trigger regeneration of
files only if they must be regenerated, because something has changes
that requires them to be regenerated.
Ralf
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