In the online documentation at
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_chapter/autoconf_4.html#SEC20
is a section that says:
Commands:
Shell commands output literally into `config.status', and associated
with a tag that the user can use to tell `config.status' which the
commands to run. The commands are run each time a tag request is given
to `config.status', typically each time the file `tag' is created.
This is unclear. The first sentence simply doesn't make sense. And the
collective doesn't explain how the command is associated with a tag.
It seems to me that if you have
AC_CONFIG_FILES([tag1 tag2 tag3], [commands])
then [commands] will be run after each file (tag) is created. If this
is the case then the explanation just needs to be clarified, perhaps:
"Shell commands output literally into `config.status', and are
associated with the tags that the user can use to tell `config.status'
when to run the commands. The commands are run each time a tag request
is given to `config.status', typically each time the file `tag' is
created. If multiple tags are the commands will be associated with each
one and may therefore be run multiple times. If this isn't what you
want, you should move each tag and its commands into a separate
AC_CONFIG_FOOS line so that the commands are not duplicated."
jason
