Re: Running a plain ./config.status at top level

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

[snip]
> | 2. When there are actions that Automake doesn't know about
> |    (AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS creating files), they never get a chance of
> |    being run.
[snip]
>  ## This rule remakes the Makefile.
>  %MAKEFILE%: %MAINTAINER-MODE% %MAKEFILE-IN% %MAKEFILE-DEPS% 
> $(top_builddir)/config.status
>  ## FIXME: $(am__depfiles_maybe) lets us re-run the rule to create the
>  ## .P files.  Ideally we wouldn't have to do this by hand.
> +if %?TOPDIR_P%
> +     $(SHELL) ./config.status $(am__depfiles_maybe)
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Given your rationale, shouldn't this be just

  $(SHELL) ./config.status

am__depfiles_maybe may have the value 'depfiles', in which case it
would only run the 'depfiles' command, not what you want.

- Hari
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