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Re: aclocal rerun problem


On May 26, 1999, Feiyi Wang <fwang2@mcnc.org> wrote:

> My understanding of autoconf is once you have the "configure", it
> should not depend on whether or not target system has autoconf
> installed, not mention to even re-run it, am i missing something
> here?

automake will re-run them if the autoconf/automake-generated files
appear to be out-of-date.  It's always a good idea to run `autoreconf
--force' on a platform in which both autoconf and automake work before 
configuring on a platform in which you don't have any of those.

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