* Steffen Dettmer wrote on Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 02:19:45PM CET: > The problem is when a new package (let's say a lib) is added to > the super-package, the super-package configure has a new subdir > to configure recursively. > > Maybe I tell the high-level-problem with other words: > > After cvs update, when a new sub-package was added and > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS was extended, make fails. So each user must > pre-conf (autoreconf or so) the srcdir and re-configure each > builddir (uncomfortable and takes much time and touches all > config.h) and then re-make everything (takes much time again). > > Is there some trick / way to improve on that? Not really. If you don't use --force with autoreconf, then unchanged config.h.in files nor unchanged config.h files should be touched however. I'd provide your users with a script that first runs autoreconf -v, and then configure with cache enabled and make in the build tree. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
