Re: aclocal, etc. dependency order?

[Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Paul Martinolich wrote:

> In what order should I run aclocal; automake; autoconf?
> 
That one.

> I develop mostly on an SGI system and have automake 1.4 and
> autoconf 2.13.  Using NIS/NFS, I can log onto others systems
> to compile the code under a new OS using the same source.
> Occasionally, I see something like:
> 
> cd ../../src/aps && aclocal
> cd ../../src/aps && automake --foreign Makefile
> 
Make thinks this Makefile is out of date.  You probably have a time
synchronization problem between your machines.

> when I compile on a different OS.  On several of the other
> systems automake and autoconf are not installed.  But on the
> linux box, it tries to run automake and fails:
> 
Use the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE macro so this will only happen of you have
configured with --enable-maintainer-mode.

> Makefile.am:1: require version 1.4, only have 1.3
> 
> I'd like to run automake/autoconf on the SGI development
> machine the "proper" order so that ./configure will NEVER
> attempt to call aclocal and automake on the other platforms.
> 
Order shouldn't matter.

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Brian Ford
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