On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 10:46 +0000, Alan Jenkins wrote: > I take Jon's point, it's dangerous to treat autotools as > incomprehensible magic. So I think we should keep the full command > sequence documented, but change it to use "aclocal -I m4". > autoreconf is the recommended tool upstream; it traces the configure.ac script and your m4 files and works out what the best order to run things actually is - re-running if necessary. On checking out anything from revision control, one should just run "autoreconf -i" to get the autoconfery; and then rely on automake magically updating as it goes when source files are changed. After this, you'll find the whole process much less painful ;) Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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