Re: When do I need autogen and configure?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Thorsten Meyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> new patches have been commited to savannah at an amazing rate lately and I
> certainly hope that it stays like this :-).
> However, with my rather old computer, it gets increasingly difficult to keep 
> my
> mercurial octave up to date, because building octave takes so long (even with
> ccache).
>
> My question in this context:
> How can I figure out, if I really need to rerun autogen or configure to build
> octave? Could there be a way to let the Makefiles figure it out for 
> themselves?
>
> thanks
>
> Thorsten
>
>

In general, you need to rerun configure if any of the Makefile.in
files changed. You need to rerun autogen.sh if configure.in changed.
Sometimes there are ways how to cheat - for instance, you can reflect
the change in a Makefile manually, avoiding the recompilation of
untouched code.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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