On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 10:05, Akim Demaille wrote: > > But beware, autoreconf can be dangerous and doesn't always work. > > Why? To make a long story short, some examples: 1. autoreconf doesn't work if a package has not been prepared for the particular version of auto*tools autoreconf is about to run. i.e. you are going to trip each and every incompatibility any of the auto*tools are carrying around. E.g. run autoreconf on packages assuming autoconf-2.13 or libtool-1.4 with autoconf-2.59 rsp. libtool-1.5 installed - Im most cases the result will be garbage or non-functionality. (An extreme: Take the gcc source tree and try autoreconf - The result is devastation ;) ) 2. I am still experiencing problems with autoreconf failing to run autoheader in certain cases. Unfortunately I am only seeing this with real-world code and have not been able to produce an isolated example. Ralf
