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Re: Cameleon packages available



On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 01:09:05PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 03:13:20PM +0200, Maxence Guesdon wrote:
> > > > > BTW, I'm surprised that autoconf is required since
> > > > > a configure script is provided.
> > > > 
> > > > Better ask Maxence on this issue then ...
> > > 
> > > In fat, i give the .configure script like everyone does, but i give also the configure.in script if someone needs to modify it (easier to modify than the configure script). The Makefile also contains a target to rebuild itself.
> > >
> > > Do you think I should remove this target ? and omve the configure.in script in a subdir ?
> > 
> >   $ tar ztvf cameleon_1.1+cvs.20021009.orig.tar.gz | grep configure
> >   -rwxr-xr-x guesdon/cristal 43511 2002-08-26 11:42:25 cameleon-snapshot/configure
> >   -rw-r--r-- guesdon/cristal  6068 2002-08-26 11:42:26 cameleon-snapshot/configure.in
> > [...]
> > 
> > The configure script is older than configure.in ;)
> > 
> > A workaround is to touch configure in debian/rules before running make,
> > but there may be other timestamp problems.
> 
>   I think you found the origin of the problem. But I cannot how
>   the Makefile manages to call autoconf. The toplevel rules I invoke
>   do not lead to it.

Maybe an implicit configure: configure.in rule in make itself ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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