How to regenerate configure and Makefile.in?

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

On 28.06.2015 21:18, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> writes:
> 
>> Apparently it wants an autoconf version that is exactly 2.64 and at the
>> same time 2.65 or higher:
> 
> That is your system automake that requires 2.65.  You need to use
> automake 1.11.1.
> 
> Andreas.
> 

Hmm, the oldest automake in current Debian is 1.11.6, which doesn't work
either. I guess the easiest way for me to make Makefile.in reflect
changes made in Makefile.am is manually with a text editor.

philipp@notebook4:~/binutils-2.25-x/binutils$ automake-1.11
aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.64.
You have another version of autoconf.  It may work, but is not
guaranteed to.
If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely.
To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically
`autoreconf'.
configure.ac:22: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of 2.69.
../config/override.m4:12: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from...
configure.ac:22: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
automake-1.11: autoconf failed with exit status: 1
philipp@notebook4:~/binutils-2.25-x/binutils$ automake-1.11 --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.6
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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