[PATCH] Use automake (v5)

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Apr 27 16:52:12 GMT 2021


On 4/27/2021 11:50 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 20/04/2021 21:13, Jon Turney wrote:
>> For ease of reviewing, this patch doesn't contain changes to generated
>> files which would be made by running ./autogen.sh.
>   I pushed this patch.
> 
> If you have an existing build directory, while you might get away with invoking 
> 'make' at the top-level, I would recommend blowing it away and configuring again.

I'm confused about how the generated files are going to get regenerated when 
necessary.  I see calls to autogen (which I guess is /usr/bin/autogen.exe from 
the autogen package) in the Makefiles, but I don't see any calls to autogen.sh. 
  Is the latter no longer needed?

Ken


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