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Re: config.in
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: config.in |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:42:08 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
|>
|> > Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
|> >
|> > |> Things may be different now with src/config.in. There now seems to be
|> > |> a Make rule to update that file, so it might try to run automatically.
|> > |> This is no good.
|> >
|> > There was always a rule for configure as well, otherwise I wouldn't have
|> > added one for config.in. But the difference with config.in is that it
|> > depends on a third file, src/stamp-h.in, that functions as a timestamp
|> > file, because autoheader does not modify its output if it wouldn't change,
|> > thus to avoid running autoheader again and again the stamp file is needed.
|> > I have already extended make-dist to fix the timestamps for distribution.
|>
|> I think I got lost half way through those changes.... I don't think
|> I'll ever dare adding a new parameter to config.in or configure :-)
You will not ever need to modify config.in any more.
|> May I suggest that you write a short INTRO_CVS file (not to be
|> included in a dist) which explains what tools are needed to
|> reconfigure things (autoconf version etc.), what (config related)
Just use autoconf >= 2.51, as stated in configure.in (AC_PREREQ).
|> files are in CVS, why they are there, and what the dependencies
|> between all those files are.
In addition to autoconf you just need to run autoheader to update
src/config.in. That's all.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: config.in, (continued)
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Miles Bader, 2002/04/16
- Re: config.in, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Miles Bader, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Miles Bader, 2002/04/17
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/18
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Kim F. Storm, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: config.in, Kim F. Storm, 2002/04/19
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/20
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/21
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/22
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/22
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/22
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/23
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/24
- Re: config.in, Andreas Schwab, 2002/04/24
- Re: config.in, Richard Stallman, 2002/04/25