That is afaik because teh checked out files have bad time stamps. configure's time stamp must be the younger than configure.in's, Makefile.in's younger than Makefile.am's etc. WilX On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Nigel Kukard wrote: > HI Guys, > > I've followed the documentation to make a gnu build system. The only > problem I have is when i checkout my program from CVS and run configure, > before it will built it re-runs aclocal, autoconf, automake and > configure AGAIN. > > Is there a way to stop this from happening? >