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Re: aclocal, etc. dependency order?
- To: Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>
- Subject: Re: aclocal, etc. dependency order?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
- Date: 27 May 1999 20:16:16 -0600
- Cc: Paul Martinolich <martinol@ametro.net>, automake@gnu.org
- References: <Pine.SGI.4.03.9905211510590.7183-100000@iscream.vss.fsi.com>
- Reply-To: tromey@cygnus.com
>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com> writes:
Brian> Sorry, backward. aclocal, autoconf, automake.
>> Order shouldn't matter.
Brian> At least for this problem.
It shouldn't, but sometimes it does.
Sometimes automake can't guess whether aclocal needs to be run. But
it can guess if you run aclocal first. (Automake uses a heuristic to
decide -- yet another aclocal-related bogosity.)
Older versions of automake have a bug where configure would not be put
in the distribution if it didn't exist when automake was run. For
these versions of automake you had to run autoconf first.
Tom