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Re: autoconf AC_PREREQ ?
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- To: "Ryan Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>, libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:35:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: autoconf AC_PREREQ ?
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Ryan Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, we don't re-run autoconf. Generally Ulrich re-runs it and
> checks the generated files into cvs when necessary. But like my email
> indicates, this can expose some discrepancies when there's a mismatch
> between Autoconf versions used to generate the base configure files
> and new configure files that you may need to generate from your own
> new configure.in fragments.
In summary, don't regenerate the configure scripts unless you know
what you're doing.
Cheers,
Carlos.