how to run automake/conf on newlib

J. Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Fri Jul 19 12:56:00 GMT 2002


Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to add a file to a machine subdirectory and wanted
> to know what was the proper command sequence to regenerate
> auto* generated files.
> 
> Also are there any particular auto* version requirements?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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The steps in the machine/xxx dir would be:

  1. aclocal -I ../../..     /* the -I ../../.. points to the top-level newlib dir */
  2. autoconf
  3. automake --cygnus Makefile


Step 1 above has a dependency on newlib/acinclude.m4 and configure.in.
Step 2 is dependent on configure.in and aclocal.m4.  Step 3 is dependent on
Makefile.am, configure.in, and aclocal.m4.  Simply put: if you do any step
because of a change, all steps after it should be done as well.

You should only have to redo aclocal if the top-level acinclude.m4 changes
or you change macros you are using in your configure.in.  You don't have to
guard against the latter case by running aclocal - just be aware of it if autoconf 
complains about a missing macro after you make a configure.in change.

We currently use autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4.

-- Jeff J.



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