On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:59 -0500, Bob Rossi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm learning a lot about the autotools. I want to say thanks to the list > for teaching me so much! > > I have a quick question, I run the autotools in this order, With recent auto*tools, you should use autoreconf instead > aclocal -I config > autoconf -f > autoheader > automake -a > when I do an out-of-tree configure it works fine, but when I do the make > I get, > cd ../cgdb && /bin/bash > /home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/cgdb.testsuite/cgdb/config/missing --run > autoheader > > Am I doing something wrong or is this expected? The former, the order is wrong. But unless you're using ancient auto*tools, you're better off using autoreconf. Besides this, there is a (AFAICT, yet undiscovered) bug somewhere, which occasionally triggers "seemingly spurious" autoheader runs. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
