Re: source dependencies
On Jul 25, Shaya Potter wrote
> On 25 Jul 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > I, too, think this should be policy, unless someone can show a
> > technical reason why automake/autoconf need be re-run for _every_
> > build.
>
> Autoconf, at least, might do some architecture testing, and therefore, the
> Makefile created for one system, will not work for another.
automake creates "Makefile.in", not "Makefile".
automake is a addon for autoconf, it will not work without autoconf,
and doesn't change autoconf. All it does is to create gnu Makefile
standard conform Makefiles from a few lines in Makefile.am.
andreas
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