Re: source dependencies
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On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Jul 22, James Troup wrote
> > How about automake?
>
> automake creates Makefiles, before packageing a program.
> so you don't need it to compile it.
Well, it may happen that since we can modify it freely, we could want to
change the Makefile, and policy says not to modify Makefiles directly...
I don't know automake well but I think autoconf is very similar.
Taking it as an example, we have two choices here:
a) If we ever modify configure.in, the maintainer should run autoconf
so that the .diff file contains also the diffs for the new configure
script, and autoconf is not needed again at build time.
b) We run autoconf at build time.
I think a) is the best solution, but I'm not sure.
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