octave-maintainers
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: bug in oct-cmplx.h?


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: bug in oct-cmplx.h?
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:01:31 -0400

On 15-Sep-2009, Thorsten Meyer wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 15-Sep-2009, Thorsten Meyer wrote:
| >
| > | I always thought that ./config.status --recheck did the same as
| > | ./configure (only that it saved me retyping the detailed configure
| > | options).  Apparently, this is not (always) the case. Can you explain?
| >
| > Read the description of the --recheck option in the autoconf manual.
| > I don't think it does what you expect.  I think this is an autoconf
| > issue, but perhaps we could have better integration of autoconf and
| > Make, so that things are updated correctly and automatically when
| > there are changes to the configure scripts.  That we generally need to
| > run autogen.sh and configure when things change doesn't bother me too
| > much, so I'm unlikely to make changes, but I would of course consider
| > patches.
| >   
| I have been using the make target "configfiles", that actually tries to
| update the configuration files correctly. Only it's broken for config.h
| (I did not realize that config.h is generated by config.status just like
| the Makefiles when I implemented it).
| 
| Included is a simple patch that should fix the "configfiles" target wrt
| config.h.

OK, I made a slightly different change as a part of a larger set of
tweaks to the configure script:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4531741e5236

Thanks,

jwe


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]