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Re: Renaming of automake to automake1.4



On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:23:41PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:22:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > What kind of debiandist are you expecting ?
> > 
> > Not what you're talking about.
> > 
> > I'm talking about:
> > 
> > * a rule in debian/rules that will affect what is shipped in the source
> >   package
> > * a rule that, at least initially, is only useful for packages that use
> >   libtool, automake, or autoconf
> 
> like this:
> 
> dist:
> 		aclocal
> 		autoheader
> 		autoconf 
> 		automake -ca

I'm not sure this is a good idea; if it's run automatically then the
package will stop building from source when the autoconf/automake ABI
changes again (which *will* happen).

If it isn't run automatically, the tool you are looking for is
"autoreconf".

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