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Re: aclocal rerun problem
- To: Feiyi Wang <fwang2@mcnc.org>
- Subject: Re: aclocal rerun problem
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
- Date: 27 May 1999 09:38:38 -0300
- Cc: automake@gnu.org
- References: <374C6926.8B8C3D11@mcnc.org>
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appear to be out-of-date.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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