Adding automake to the list, as with the information below this is now looking like an automake issue. I rolled another release and here's what I see: harlan@hms-mbp11% ls -ltrT config.h.in sntp/config.h.in aclocal.m4 sntp/aclocal.m4 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 40 Feb 23 15:10:03 2014 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 41166 Feb 23 15:10:10 2014 aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 40943 Feb 23 15:10:15 2014 sntp/aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 41378 Feb 23 15:10:30 2014 config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 25706 Feb 23 15:14:16 2014 sntp/config.h.in harlan@hms-mbp11% (update the repo) harlan@hms-mbp11% ls -ltrT config.h.in sntp/config.h.in aclocal.m4 sntp/aclocal.m4 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 40 Feb 23 15:10:03 2014 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 41166 Feb 23 15:10:10 2014 aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 40943 Feb 23 15:10:15 2014 sntp/aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 41378 Feb 23 15:10:30 2014 config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 25706 Feb 23 15:14:16 2014 sntp/config.h.in harlan@hms-mbp11% ./bootstrap (update version.m4 if needed) (touch man pages, sleep 1) (touch .texi and .menu pages, sleep 1) (touch .html pages) (run autoreconf-vi) autoreconf: Leaving directory `.' harlan@hms-mbp11% ls -ltrT config.h.in sntp/config.h.in aclocal.m4 sntp/aclocal.m4 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 41378 Feb 23 15:10:30 2014 config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 25706 Feb 23 15:14:16 2014 sntp/config.h.in -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan wheel 40 Feb 26 10:06:09 2014 sntp/m4/version.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 41166 Feb 26 10:06:15 2014 aclocal.m4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 harlan staff 40943 Feb 26 10:06:21 2014 sntp/aclocal.m4 harlan@hms-mbp11% so there it is - for some reason the config.h.in files are not being regenerated. Just to be clear, the script that generates m4/version.m4 only updates that file if the version number is different. Right now, version.m4 contains: m4_define([VERSION_NUMBER],[4.2.7p425]) while the two config.h.in files contain: harlan@hms-mbp11% grep VERSION sntp/config.h.in config.h.in sntp/config.h.in:#undef PACKAGE_VERSION sntp/config.h.in:#undef VERSION config.h.in:#undef PACKAGE_VERSION config.h.in:#undef VERSION harlan@hms-mbp11% There is no dependency on version.m4 for anything in the Makefile.am . So automake has am__aclocal_m4_deps that does contain: $(top_srcdir)/sntp/m4/version.m4 which makes sense because the first line of configure.ac is: m4_include([sntp/m4/version.m4]) So while the filestamps are technically correct, the generated Makefile *will* see that version.m4 is newer than config.h.in and regenerate it via Makefile dependencies. I suspect the answer is that at the end of the bootstrap script, if the aclocal.m4 file is newer than the config.h.in file we need to touch the config.h.in file. H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
