Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand this.  If a third-party package uses an
> > auxiliary script, say install-sh, then that third-party package
> > already contains install-sh and does not care about the parent's
> > auxdir.  Am I missing something?  What kind of adaptation do you
> > want to avoid passing AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR?
>
> Oh, yes, you're right.  braino, sorry.  This one is not about
> not changing the subpackage, but about saving space in the combined
> package.  After all, auxiliary scripts with the same name are supposed
> to be identical, right?

That would be a very poor assumption.  Scripts with the same name may
output different values.  For example, an older config.guess script
may output a different host tripplet for the same OS than a newer
config.guess, and the version of tools used in the subdirectory key
off this older host tripplet.  They would misbehave if they were
directed to use the newer config.guess.

Bob
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