Re: [PATCH] Make inter-release --version output more useful.

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:34:22PM CEST:
...
>> The only reason to invoke $(ACLOCAL) $(ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS) here is if
>> some important piece has just been added or modified in configure.ac
>> or m4/m4.m4, yet the user has not run any other make command.
>
> Well, it's recorded in aclocal.m4 which autoconf version was used when
> generating aclocal.m4 (remember aclocal and automake may call autom4te
> behind the scenes).  So it would be nice to have the version string
> match there, too, to avoid needless warnings.
>
> Maybe we should override in Autoconf the rules to regenerate aclocal.m4,
> configure, and Makefile.in, so they prepend $(top_builddir)/tests to
> PATH, so the right rebuilding is done.  FWIW, the Automake package does
> something similar.

I've gone ahead and used autoreconf and pushed the patches.
I think I've addressed all of your concerns.
Thanks for the feedback.