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RE: Help: Missing something simple...


Hi David.

Please tell me I sent that at 3am or something... at least I can claim tiredness
as an excuse for saying something so stupid.  I even have a block diagram
somewhere round here.  Doh!


On 20-May-99 Masterson, David wrote:
> Tried that -- no change.  By the way:
> 
> * Autoconf turns configure.in into configure.

It also needs aclocal.m4 for many macros.

> * Autoconf does not turn Makefile.in into Makefile -- configure does.

Yup.  My bad.

> * Automake turns Makefile.am into Makefile.in (does it do anything to
> configure?)

No, it scans it to figure out all sorts of other stuff though.
.
> * Therefore, assuming configure looks for aclocal.m4, the order of autoconf
> and automake should probably not make a difference.

autoconf uses aclocal.m4 while generating configure.

But I think you are right about the running order of automake and autoconf,
though I always run automake first myself.

The only other thing that I can think of is that automake-1.4 doesn't like
autoconf-2.12. 

Cheers,
        Gary
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